But TechCrunch has now confirmed the Pebble instance was recently established by Pebble co-founder and CEO Gabor Cselle as something of a new social experiment. However, members of the Pebble community are involved in the server’s moderation.
Cselle tells us that the community asked the founders to set up a subreddit and a Mastodon instance so they’d have somewhere to go when Pebble shut down, so they did.
“And then something really interesting happened, which is after we started with Mastodon, a bunch of people came over,” he says. One of them, a user only known as “Blobcat” (@blobcat@pebble.social) posted a link to their GitHub repo where they had styled the Mastodon instance to look just like how Pebble used to. So Pebble.social got a new look and has since grown to a few hundred active users, as well.
“It’s really a testament to the power of open source,” says Cselle.
Pebble, a startup that tried and failed to take on Twitter, finds new life on Mastodon | TechCrunch
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otter@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
paraphrand@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s fun. I hope it grows as much as it can handle.
FakinUpCountryDegen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Love their watches.
danielfgom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you go to their website it says they closed down on 1 November 2023…
HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 11 months ago
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 11 months ago
I see a snake across the screen ahhhhhhhaaaaa
Albinjose7345@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
What is this pebble ?
SaintWacko@midwest.social 11 months ago
Every time I see Pebble I think it’s about my watch
YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, likewise. I got confused and excited when I saw this post. Just disappointed now, lol.