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!
Hmm sinon je vois que sur la PWA de #Iceshrimp y a le même bug que sur celle de #Firefish, (Firefox/Fennec) qui est que quand on va sur Partager ça prend en compte un clic sur ce qu'il a en dessous c'est hyper chiant ... :pikaneutral: y en a d'autre qui on se problème ou c'est juste avec Fennec/Firefox ??
Vor ziemlich genau einem Monat habe ich mir eine #Firefish Instanz aufgesetzt und schreibe dort als @grischa
Das gefällt mir da so gut, dass ich hier seit dem auf meiner #Pleroma Instanz keinen einzige Beitrag mehr verfasst habe, dafür drüben aber kontinuierlich.
Es gibt auf Pleroma ein paar (wenige) Dinge, die ich drüben vermissen werde, aber unterm Strich ist Firefish so viel mächtiger und spaßiger, dass ich jetzt dann doch endlich den Umzug vollziehen werde.
Interessante vedere la diffusione degli utenti del #fediverso in molti progetti.
Quasi tutti i social decentralizzati centralizzano nel proprio server principale una enorme percentuale della base di utenti attivi.
Ciò suggerisce che il fediverso non sia distribuito ma sia più policentrico, gli sviluppatori stessi spingono sempre più ad iscriversi nelle proprie istanze.
PS
in realtà #mastodon ha 2 istanze gestite, sono: 320k attivi (24%!)
If you import posts from an instance into a *key instance you are moving to, do your followers get spammed by all your imports? Can you import posts into Misskey?
Alright, now that catodon.social is live (welcome new members!), let me explain some of the first changes we've done so far in #Catodon, compared to #Firefish.
We really tried to make the platform easier to understand and less overwhelming for new members. So we changed some icons and also some basic terminology:
Antennas are now Custom feeds
Channels are now Forums
Pages are now Blog posts
Boosts are now Reposts
Local timeline is called "This server" and Global timeline is called "All servers"
We also tried to cut down on menu items. So Lists and Custom feeds are now only accessible from the timelines, Groups are only accessible through Chat (which is the only feature they are used in anyway), Clips are now called Collections and are placed in a tab under Bookmarks. That's four menu items less, without losing any functionality! But we also removed a fifth item, Gallery, which was very half-baked and rarely used in most Firefish servers. Its functionality can more or less be covered by Blog posts.
There is no "Social" timeline: Instead, we have incorporated Social's functionality in Home. Posts from the local server are now displayed by default in Home, so that new users aren't greeted with an empty timeline. You can change that in Settings, so the Home timeline either works as follows only, or as "Social" in Misskey/Firefish.
There are other changes as well and there are more coming as we're preparing for our first official release, but these are some of the most striking ones you will see!
Please reply to this post with their username and give this post a boost. Looking for some cool people to follow. Any topic is fair game, let's see how much exposure we can create.
Aus Gründen habe ich gestern zum Testen einen Account bei #Friendica angelegt.
Auf den ersten Blick überraschte mich, dass es bei den Beiträgen kein Zeichenlimit gibt. Und die erst einmal erschlagende Vielfalt der Möglichkeiten.
Nach dem ersten Eindruck scheint mir, dass #Firefish am schönsten aussieht, Akkoma die übersichtlichste Lösung ist, Mastodon auf dem Desktop gruselig schlecht aussieht und im Vergleich zu allen anderen unnötigerweise (?) mit Einschränkungen versehen ist.
Ich werde jetzt ein paar Tage oder Wochen versuchen, mich in Friendica zurecht zu finden und dann entscheiden, was für mich am besten passt.
I have been seeing lots of talk about #Firefish and the "dumpster fire" that FF social has devolved into. I have a lot of sympathy for the dev team finding as we have here at blahaj.zone that FF/IS doesn't scale well. The devolution has been more public over at FF social cos Fedi's own Guy Kawasaki was hyping it up and was part of the team until it wasn't producing the results he expected and he slinked off. I wonder if the seed funders have done the same. Chris and Kainoa had separate funders, both involved in political tech. I think they were hoping to throw some seed money at something that wouldn't drag the chain like Mastodon development and be the new Twttr for liberal politics to electioneer on. 🤮 Kainoa told me who his funder was and from that point I haven't promoted Calckey/Firefish since.
Gotta love the "but we're the good guys" tech VC people, male, white, older, cishet, been "around" social tech for a while, looking to ride this Fedi thing into "significance"/"success", who found their side project who they fed "advice" to without any real stakes/responsibility. And when Kainoa wasn't the 10x dev they hoped, they've jumped ship, not that they could do any better.
It would be nice for the sake of transparency that there was some kind of repository where such funding was disclosed. Ironic when one of the funders is about protecting democracy. #Fediverse#FediDev#FediDevs
It's interesting sitting here on an old version of #Calckey seeing someone on #Mastodon server telling their fellow user that posting to unlisted will opt-out of #search when I can see Unlisted posts in my antennas quite easily though I believe this has been rightly rectified in the newest versions of [#Firefish / #Iceshrimp but need to confirm]. Being hidden from the Explore tab on Mastodon is not the same as being unsearchable across the fediverse. Frankly, there's little understanding even among admins across the #fediverse about what's a Mastodon / Mastodon API function that is federated to other Mastodon servers but doesn't translate well outside of Mastodon on other #ActivityPub connected platforms like #Misskey and it's forks, #Hubzilla and #Friendica, or rapidly growing platforms like #Lemmy and #Kbin. Kbin also scrapes posts from across the fediverse and puts them into its own magazines.
Unfortunately simple, up-to-date documentation doesn't really exist to explain the realities of federation vs what your admin said was the reality. AP was not built with privacy in mind, and 'security through obscurity' was mostly a Mastodon thing from when folks thought either the Mastoverse was almost the dark web, or the whole fediverse [which has never been the case], and Google et al weren't interested in scraping it.
Unfortunately we have a cadre of devs across all fedi platforms who'll give glowing lip-service to both the fedi and ActivityPub histories of being built by queer or other minority identities but still won't work on giving folks the granular #privacy and #safety controls that weren't included in those protocols, and whose feature roadmaps now just look like bird site 2.0 funded by the milquetoast liberals in political tech who provide their seed money.
Beyond Mastodon and GoToSocial, every other fediverse project treats posting to public as opting in to search and indexing. Indeed, this is pretty much how the ActivityPub protocol handles such too.
Calckey rebrands as Firefish (calckey.social)
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!