<p><strong>Iceshrimp</strong> is a decentralized and federated social networking service, implementing the <strong>ActivityPub</strong> standard.<br>
It was forked from <del>Calckey</del> Firefish (itself a fork of Misskey) in mid-2023, to focus on stability, performance and usability instead of new features.</p>
> Most of our current development resources are going into the [rewrite](/iceshrimp/Iceshrimp.NET), to further our goal of increasing stability and performance.
> This means that major changes to the JS codebase (this project), and especially to the database schema, are on hold for the time being. Bugs will of course still be fixed, and support is still available on the usual channels.
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> Once the rewrite is finished, there will be an easy upgrade path for existing Iceshrimp instances.
- Check out [FediDB](https://fedidb.org/software/iceshrimp) or [Fediverse Observer](https://iceshrimp.fediverse.observer/list) to get an overview of the instances that are out there.
- Please note that we do not operate a "flagship instance", the only project-affiliated domain is `iceshrimp.dev`.
- Our backend lead dev (zotan) is in need of a better laptop, as their current one does not have enough memory. You can contribute [here](https://bunq.me/zotanlaptopcrowdfund). Any leftover money will be given to queers in need.