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Firefish Mastodon alternative (joinfirefish.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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I found Firefish which is a better alternative to the standard Mastodon application. It's compatible with Mastodon and has better features. It allows users to create web pages and the character limit is 3,000 instead of the 500 on Mastodon. It feels like a good limit for the type of site that it is. Plus this means that it can handle long posts from users on customized Mastodon instances.

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[–] just_another_person 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Comparable how? Need some ideas and facts on the assertion.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, they're both microblogging platforms that use ActivityPub to communicate with other websites.

[–] just_another_person 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But I'd assume Mastodon has way more users, so probably not "comparable" exactly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The userbase is not that important with activity pub. If the features are good they can grow slowly and still enjoy the whole fediverse. Of course it is important to have users at all. Otherwise it doesn't make sense to put work on the software.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You assumed well. I'm in a Firefish instance and the most content I can see from there comes from Mastodon users from other instances.

Don't missunderstand me. I think that is pretty cool because you can interact with both Mastodon and Firefish users using any of the two applications, but at least in case of my Firefish instance, most of the additional features of Firefish are underutilized.