Basically it just displays a stream of Fediverse posts as they come to the server. Says it streams from “Mastodon/Fediverse” and links to jointhefediverse.net, so I don’t know what the sources are.
But it’s nice to look at!
Remember when Lemmy used Websockets? And we had updates on everything in realtime? Oh that was fun :(
Dark days 😬
Too many tabs, too many tabs!
It wasn’t so much fun considering everything was broken all the time. Remember when your feed would suddenly update with about 30 old posts, pushing what you were reading way down the page? I don’t mind refreshing to see new stuff honestly.
It was really cool seeing comments and upvotes change in real time, but I understand it was buggy and terrible for server performance and I’m glad it’s better and more stable now.