I started out, like many, on #Mastodon, during the great Twitter migration. Not that I migrated from Twitter. No... I never had a Twitter account. Rather, I hoped that Mastodon could obtain the Network Effect, and help fundamentally alter the shape of social media for the foreseeable future.
So I made my own solo Masto instance and ran it for a good six months. It was cool. But then there was a glittery thing -- #Calckey -- that caught my eye. So I joined that. Pretty soon the maintainer of Calckey (young BTW) dropped out, but forks forked. I waited. Then #Firefish was the shit. But no...
Then, today, the admin of my former instance calckey.world made a new sharkey.world instance public, and I joined. #Sharkey is the new shit.
Because that's how I roll. On the Cutting Edge, baby.
By all accounts, Ruud (mastodon.world admin) running a Sharkey instance has the makings of something that could be pretty stable. The Sharkey people seem committed and serious from the little I know of them.
@maegul Yah I was tuned in enough to know that Calckey forks were coming. I didn't know when or what, but I checked out a few of the contenders. Sharkey looked interesting, but I think everyone tuned into the whole Misskey evolution groks that this is really about Rust VS RoR.
Ummm ... Firefish was a rebrand of calckey ... same dev and everything. My impression was that some rust was being added to the project, but I wasn't aware that it was re-write in Rust ... my impression is that it was very much misskey under the hood.
Moreover, AFAIK, Sharkey is a fork of Misskey v13 and not associated with firefish at all (which was originally a fork of Misskey v~12).
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