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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Great. I always wondered why they decided on calckey, it always just sounded like a third-rate calculator found on Google Play. I really like the new logo.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Oh thank goodness, I could hardly think of a worse name than Calckey for a social media service.

In all seriousness, glad to see them growing. Hope to see them succeed!

[–] SpringMango7379 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ElectroVagrant 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

quoting posts unlike Mastodon

what happens when a Firefish user quotes a post and it federates to Mastodon? Is the quote lost?

[–] ElectroVagrant 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure tbh...It may be, or it may try to convert it to a link to the quoted post instead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Link to the updated platform website: https://joinfirefish.org/

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

OK, that's some cool branding, and some cooler features. I love how the OSS community social media services are building off of each other, and improving.

[–] leraje 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Calckey (or Firefish now I guess) is a really great product, its much more customisable than Mastodon in look and feel, it's easy to create site-wide themes for example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, I just created an account, it looks so much better than Mastodon!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have heard good things re: customization and layout. Any support for Lemmy/kbin? Seems they're aiming to cover most fediverse platforms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There is a compatibility table on the link I posted in another comment

[–] applecore 1 points 1 year ago

Mastodon Pixelfed Peertube Akkoma Friendica and more

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