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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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simple@lemm.ee · 22 pts · 3y
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.
SpringMango7379@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
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?
simple@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 3y
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@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
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.
lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 3y
what happens when a Firefish user quotes a post and it federates to Mastodon? Is the quote lost?
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Not sure tbh...It may be, or it may try to convert it to a link to the quoted post instead.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org · 13 pts · 3y
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!
Blaze@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 3y
Link to the updated platform website: https://joinfirefish.org/
leraje@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
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.
Blaze@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
Yes, I just created an account, it looks so much better than Mastodon!
Wiz@midwest.social · 5 pts · 3y
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.
0x0@social.rocketsfall.net · 3 pts · 3y
Have heard good things re: customization and layout. Any support for Lemmy/kbin? Seems they're aiming to cover most fediverse platforms.
Blaze@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
There is a compatibility table on the link I posted in another comment
applecore@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y