@SallyStrange if you use your own domain you probably already know, but for everyone else: You can totally use your own domain name with #Calckey. It can be hosted just like #Mastodon!
Calckey.social is just a service like mastodon.social that hosts the open source software for you
@aronow They both utilize #ActivityPub. So you can follow and be followed by people in both apps.
Calckey is actually a fork of Misskey. There's also Akkoma and a bunch of others. They provide additive features on top of the core ActivityPub ones most of which I think Mastodon captures.
I love this about the #Fediverse. Unlike BlueSky and Nostr and of corse all those other centralized social media, the ActivityPub fediverse has a very rich and active interconnected ecosystem.
@aronow@Jdreben I started this #Calckey account last night and was able to import all of my follows here- took about 3 mins. It now looks like a prettier #Mastodon (except I haven't figured out how to put it in advanced mode/deck mode.)
I am not a tech person and don't understand how it all works; it seem like I switched which app I use to view #Mastodon. It doesn't seem at all like the switch from #Mastodon to #Twitter (e.g. doesn't feel like a move to something very different.)
@Jdreben@aronow I haven't figured out all of the functions, and I love #Mastodon so please don't get me wrong- but I think that if #Calckey had been the target location for the big #TwitterMigration, it would have gone a lot smoother.
#Calckey looks so much nicer. #Mastodon looks like a tech throw-back, while #Calckey looks like a modern day application. With #Calckey, you can quote people, and it has 3000 characters- it just feels much better for non-techy people like me.
I think many people would have been more comfortable with the #Fediverse if they started here. I should add a qualifier: I've only posted maybe 7 times, so there are likely issues that I haven't come across yet. But my initial impression is extremely positive,
@SeaGoatGirl@aronow I agree with you. As a developer, the tech stack and UX of Calckey is what I would use if I were building such a service, whereas Mastodon is what I would hac done say 6 or 7 years ago 😅
I've perhaps run into more "bugs" but I've also been having a more rich and novel experience here. Mastodon is really my refuge and rock rn. Whereas Calckey is where I would prefer to be.
@SeaGoatGirl One thing I miss from Mastodon though is the ability to edit posts in place... you can edit here but it deletes all reactions and replies. Dramatic!
If I understand I think you're noticing the effects of #Federation.
Because you are on a different (and probably relatively new and less connected) server, you fetch (ie see) a different (and probably more limited) number of reactions.
You can also see not all replies (if the people who replied are on servers that your server isn't federated with).
To a certain extent you cannot "fix" this, it is just you have to know you are only seeing part of all the real interactions that are out there. To see all of them your server can do things (Relays) or you can follow lots of other users (and thus federate with their servers).
This is a simplification and not capturing it right probably because I have not read the protocols and am just learning as I go. But hope it helps and is roughly accurate. Maybe others can correct me.
It should guide you through the basics of adding columns, but you can click the dots on top of columns to stack two of them, or adjust settings (eg I like my timeline column to be dynamic width).
@Audaxocles Tbh I'm probably not the best at advocating for its features! But I can try.
1st thing I thought of us was you can use markdown when writing comments and use emoji reactions. It supports longer form writing and is generally a more reactive web interface.
Last thought would be that you can see historical activity of accounts, to help you understand how much and what kind of activity an account primarily does (ie do they boost a ton vs post their own stuff)
@maegul@Audaxocles I haven't used them much yet but my understanding is channels are like a hashtag in that they combine posts. But a meta connection rather than in the text of the post? Like facebook groups -- you can join and post under a category (channel). I'm not a part of any but concept seems good.
Also antennas seem to be like lists and following multiple hashtags with logical combinations.
@Jdreben@Audaxocles briefly looked at the code base … it’s NodeJS + pgsql … which seems cool.
No hate on Ruby (ie Mastodon), I’m just more likely to get into a node/js code base than a ruby one (where I don’t know ruby). I wonder if calckey does well at attracting developers/contributors?
@maegul@Audaxocles no idea re the prevalence of node in such apps. I wouldve expected most of them to use it but perhaps most of them started before it gained such dominance
Mastodon: Ruby
Lemmy: Rust
Pleroma/Akkoma: Elixir
Misskey/Calckey: Node
Pixelfed: PhP
Peertube: Node?
Microblog.pub: python (+sqlite as designed for single user instances which is cool!)
@Audaxocles@Jdreben if it doesn’t already exist, I’m thinking it’d be great if someone wrote up a clear and detailed outline of all the other platforms … differences, similarities, instance options, development roadmaps, self-hosting experience, interop over fediverse etc.
@maegul@Audaxocles I 100% agree. Big need for that. And I'm sure it will change rapidly but an attempt at the current moment in time at least most definitely should be made.
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