Calckey, a fork of Misskey, has been in development for almost a year but now it's ready for general use! it features groups, quote posts, a custom Markdown implementation, chat, emoji reactions, and a whole bunch of quality-of-life features!
I have been using it for a bit since yesternight, so far I like it although I still kind of have to get used to it (I have been out of the habit of microblogging for like 6 or 7 years).
The UI is actually quite nice, with pretty good looking themes. There is a distinction between "global" (known network), "local" (your instance), and "social" (mostly people you follow), as well as "recommended" timelines. Features like channels I might explore some time in the future, so currently cannot say much about them.
Onboarding works quite nice with how you are being guided through filling in a profile, selecting a first few people to follow and writing a first post.
My Lemmy profile page shows my Calckey account, for those of you who wish to follow me. 😁
I do like it but i'm not sure i'll use it instead of another platform...I really like lemmy and it's link aggregatorness but Calckey's lack of a character limit makes it a viable alternative. Also that UI is HOT! (As are most worked on by freeplay)
What's link aggregatorness? I hear that term often to refer to Reddit and lemmy but I don't understand what it means exactly. Obviously content on these sites is a lot more than "aggregating links" if I understand what aggregation means here.
looking at Reddit, HN, Lemmy, and lotide, it seems like there's a definite link aggregatorness that these sites/networks share that other sites/networks don't have. each post is structured in the same way: title, link (to an external website, to an uploaded piece of media, to itself), optional text. the feed is a simple list of posts, with no content displayed besides the title, poster, community it was posted to, and maybe a small preview. people can influence the order in which these posts appear through up and down votes. each community is semi-independently run and focused on a specific topic. comments are invariably displayed as a tree, and are subject to the same vote system as the posts
the content doesn't necessarily have to be links to external sites, but the interface is optimized for those and uploaded media and plain text posts are treated the same as external links
now compare this to Calckey, Akkoma, Mastodon et al. the interface is built around text posts, displaying them in their entirety. even if the post is only a link, or has media attached, it is treated the same as a text post ux-wise. no structure is imposed on the posts, so people can just submit them into the aether, rather than picking a community to post to first. posts are displayed in reverse chronological order, and there is no mechanism to influence what order the posts appear to others
Yeah. The reason I prefer them is it seems that people have more meaningful conversations than on other platform. Also on reddit specific posts can appear in search results making it possible to write a blog on one of these platform or find a very helpful suggestion to a specific problem you have. (I really wish lemmy did this: not just because of the practicality but it would also bring a whole bunch more users over here.)
I really like lemmy and it’s link aggregatorness but Calckey’s lack of a character limit makes it a viable alternative.
you can have both :P
every community on Lemmy is followable on other fediverse platforms. this one is @fediverse, and you can follow it and receive new posts to here just like any other account you follow! you won't be able to up/downvote, but you can post here by mentioning @fediverse in your post. the first line of your post will be the title, and everything after that will be the body
I like it so far, and it has a number of features I've been wanting in mastodon. The only thing holding me back is not having a good mobile app yet since that's where I do most of my social media browsing. I can get it on Fedilab, but that was built with mastodon in mind and is missing some features, and is sometimes a bit wonky.
@salarua, @madcodger, the PWA is excellent! I've found it to be extremely responsive, even on older android devices. It's a very nicely built UI/UX. For me, it's already everything Misskey is but a bit more polished.
they have a comparison of fedi social media software on the main page. according to that table, Calckey has all the features of Foundkey plus migration, enhanced search and thread handling, and partial Masto API compatibility
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