Mastodon is a great microblogging platform, but maybe you want to try something new. Firefish made a splash recently, and a lot of people are talking about it. If you’ve played with it for a while and want to officially take the plunge, here’s some tips on moving from your Mastodon Instance to a Firefish one.

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[–] baronvonj 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

fail to see the difference. It’s people posting and people replying just like here. Or do I need to actually sign up to see the differences?

Some of the differences are justthings an instance an admin can change on Mastodon, such as

Post character limit is 4,000
Search results include post contents

But there are things that would require a Mastodon admin to to fork and modify, too

Quote boosting is supported
You can format your post with markup
Emoji reactions instead of only 'like'
Antennas are a more dynamic way to group posts than just following hashtags. You can specify keywords to match from the post body (both include and exclude), specific users, specific servers, include or exclude reply posts

It's ultimately just another front-end to ActivityPub and the Fediverse. Use whichever one suits your preferences as they can see and follow each other regardless.

[–] JoeClu 1 points 1 year ago

This is really good info, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AFAIK mastodon has a hard limit of 500, changing it would either require source code modding, usage of a fork or using another software

[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I know there are Mastodon servers that allow more than 500. Guess they did have to modify the code or run a fork though.