Rant.lol is a Sharkey instance. Sharkey is the newest fork of Misskey (forked from a newer codebase than Firefish or any others) that aims to do what Firefish and Iceshrmp are already doing...but better/differently. I'm very impressed with it so far and also, pay attention to this bit, believe it might be my pick for the future of *Key forks.
I've a steadily firming opinion that anything based on the Misskey v12 codebase might struggle to scale upwards unless they take the leap to the new v13 codebase, as Sharkey has done. We've seen Blahaj struggling with outages at various points recently, and Firefish.social has been very similar; from my lay perspective I am coming to understand this as a fundamental issue of the codebase itself manifesting for any instance with a large user base. Misskey itself was apparently struggling before they addressed the back-end issues for v13.
Blahaj.zone is already running a test server of Sharkey to evaluate it. Watch this space.
What I'm seeing on Rant.lol is delightful, and I'll talk more about it at a future point.
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