@atomicpoet@kainoa Thanks @atomicpoet ; we are considering to use calckey for a group of Bengali language instance; I do not know how many signups we may end up with but upwards of 1000; can we use #Calckey?
@atomicpoet@Extra_Special_Carbon@kainoa@fediversenews One thing I cannot figure out is if I can federate between calckey and mastodon? If, say, I want to use calckey but already have a good network build on mastodon.
#Calckey not only federated, it’s a cycle or two ahead of the slow moving elephant, plus all the power of misskey flavoured markdown, a mature channel system, an enigmatic groups feature and a lot of others you will probably never use. Port your followers and posts (think the Devs have fixed that issue) and be a happy user of #Calckey, I’d say. Access the #Fediverse from Calckey on your own terms.
#Pleroma is the best of them all, with #Soapbox . Fast, very little resource hogger, everything works. If you want smooth #Fediverse traverse and self host, a #Pleroma based server is hands down your best option. If you want to host one for a small organisation, #Calckey. If you want to torture yourself with the complexity of setup go with #Mastodon but to save you grief, check out everything @darius does. This guy is a genius!
Oh absolutely. #Calckey has a rapid dev cycle, and is incredibly feature rich, designed by and administered by people who know #Fediverse inside out. I was only writing from a personal hosting perspective. #Calckey is the future. Just wait for a year.
@Extra_Special_Carbon @djohngo Short version: #CalcKey is similar to #Mastodon, somewhat like Mastodon is similar to Twitter, but CalcKey is closer to Mastodon than Mastodon is to Twitter.
Like Mastodon and Twitter, CalcKey specialises in micro-blogging.
However, CalcKey has features on top. It doesn't have a 500-character limit; you can write posts with thousands of characters.
Also, it supports text formatting via Markdown, bold type, italics, underline, code blocks etc.
And CalcKey supports quotes already now. Mastodon is working on introducing them. Unlike Mastodon, nobody is protesting against quotes on CalcKey.
Next: Like Mastodon and unlike Twitter, CalcKey is decentralised. This means it isn't one monolithic website like twitter.com, it's many websites, also called instances, running the same project. Basically, all these instances are connected each other and can communicate with each other, much like e-mail providers. Just in case you weren't aware of that yet.
Okay, now comes the kicker: CalcKey instances are connected to Mastodon instances just the same. You can be on CalcKey and still communicate with people on Mastodon as if you were on Mastodon itself.
This, by the way, means that #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse. Not all of the Fediverse, at least. There's more in the Fediverse than just Mastodon. And pretty much all of it can communicate with all of it.
Speaking of which, CalcKey is one of only two Fediverse projects known to me with an interesting feature: It shows you which project a post came from.
@atomicpoet@kainoa@fediversenews It's good to see, but I'm wondering if you can explain why typing on #calckey seems slower than in #mastodon. There's just a little bit of latency with each keystroke in my experience. I don't have it anywhere else.
@atomicpoet@kainoa@here I think that it has to do with the recent wave... servers maybe overload or may intentionally freeze to control the traffic (that's a guess, in no way I consider myself an expert on this topic)
@gdiak@fediversenews@here There is lots of slowness due to a big wave of registrations and site visits. I know that @kainoa is working hard, but this is a lot of traffic! Would be hard for anyone to keep up.
@atomicpoet@gdiak@fediversenews@kainoa I think that's a separate issue for just Calckey Social. I have the same typing latency at Easy Mode and there is no latency with any other operation.
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