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Can anyone ELI5 what the difference is between Mastodon and Firefish? Are they basically the same but a different instance similar to sh.itjust.works vs lemmy.world?
It's sort of like the difference between Lemmy and Kbin, they're different websites that share the same concept and can communicate with one another.
Yep! And they have different styling & feature sets that some may prefer, like Firefish has full text search & quoting posts unlike Mastodon for a super basic yet big difference.
There's also a bunch of other features I haven't dug into much that are interesting, like "antennae" for following words/hashtags and widgets for a variety of things. I don't know how well they all work, but overall it's aiming to be much more robust than Mastodon.
what happens when a Firefish user quotes a post and it federates to Mastodon? Is the quote lost?
Not sure tbh...It may be, or it may try to convert it to a link to the quoted post instead.