Calckey is making some big moves today, first rebranding as Firefish with a new logo, resetting their version to 1.0, and adding some interesting new features. As a Fediverse first, all Calckey.social users will be migrated to Firefish.social automatically. Not sure how that last bit will work, but we will find out soon!
Is this primarily to help indicate that it’s no longer a simple fork of Misskey, or…?
It seemed to me like Calckey was only just getting some traction & recognition under the original name, so maybe it’s better to do this now before it had fully set in, but neither this post nor the site’s blog post make it entirely clear why the name change (or why Firefish in general but that’s neither here nor there tbh).
Yes I think there is enough differences now between the two that it is plausible to make a distinction. Also I think the creator got tired of people typing it incorrectly as Cakey, Calkey, etc.
tbf the site seems to just be a find+replace of the Calckey site. i assume they’re working on more important things (like migrating calckey.social to firefish.social, which is gonna be difficult considering activitypub’s fragileness) before fixing up the site.
They took on quite a lot all at once, and there’s some stability issues with the migrations that are taking priority right now. For the moment, the Calckey.social instance migration is on hold until those can be resolved. I was curious how it was going to work. Smaller instances have had success with the migration so far, so that is promising.
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