The flagship instance of Fire Fish is now OFFLINE.
The significance of this event is many of the Fire Fish Developers have previously come forward claiming the lead developer vanished. Unfortunately, the lead developer treated their project as a centralized project, meaning that they were the sole person making decisions, giving no access to accounts or code changes or even donations, despite having a team behind them.
We are suspending #firefish.social due to it being unavailable, should the instance return this will be lifted, this is done to prevent a stock pile of queued jobs
The FireFish.Social and joinfirefish.org servers are completly down and don't even respond to pings anymore, this means #firefish is officially dead, the servers no longer run, the git server still runs but seems to be run by a different person than kainoa
We're sad to see firefish go down like this, and we're especially sad about all the users who's data is now gone due to both major instances going down
while this is a major blow to a lot of people, please don't start harassing any one that was involved in the firefish project harassing people isn't going to help, we should see firefish as something to learn from to see what went wrong and prevent something like that happening in the future
and a note be added, Sharkey is not a firefish fork, and does not intent feature parity with it, Sharkey is a misskey softfork its supposed to update with misskey, unlike other fork we will not do big actions like rewrites
It's almost time. We're super-excited. #FediGroups is entering public testing now, before a full live launch.
Many of us have used other Boosting Groups, but they only work well if you follow from Mastodon accounts. We know there is a wider fediverse. FediGroups works with all the favourites, including #Mastodon, #Firefish, #Iceshrimp, #Catodon, #Sharkey, and more. One big happy family 👪
Gibt es bei #Mastodon bzw. im #Fediverse einen Weg, sich über Kommentare zu einem spezifischen Post (oder zu allen Posts eines bestimmten Users) benachrichtigen zu lassen?
Es geht primär darum, dass ich Kommentare zu den förderierten Posts meines #Wordpress-Blogs gerne direkt in meinem Mastoson-Interface mitbekommen würde...
@Weltenkreuzer hast du mal #Firefish oder #Catodon getestet? Die bieten großartige Layout Optionen an, die meiner Meinung nach einem Twitter-Interface recht nahe kommen. Und sie implementieren die Mastodon API, sodass du Mastodon Apps nutzen kannst.
Alright, we wanna be as transparent as possible, so here's a small update on #Catodon's development: The idea so far was to have our first release more as a debloated, to some extent, version of firefish, which would be more like the foundation to build our next releases on, rather than something representative of what we want Catodon to be. But it turns out that, in order for things to be smooth in the first release, we'd have to fix some stuff that would need to be refactored anyway for the second release. So we realized it's better to just get directly to it.
So, what does this mean? We'll be sort of merging our first and second planned releases. This unfortunately means that we'll need more time to get where we want to. My advice to you, if you are running a #Firefish server and thinking of migrating, is to either stay on Firefish for the time being, or migrate to Iceshrimp - it will be easy to migrate to Catodon later if you want. The good news is that, when Catodon is finally released, I think it will be worth the wait, it won't be just a transitional version, and I'm much more excited now for the upcoming release. And yes, you can go back to Misskey and forget about firefish forks but... I wouldn't do that if I were you =)
admin accounts on firefish can't migrate. supposedly this can be fixed by commenting out one line in a file, then rebuilding, but this doesn't work with docker compose. this is a problem that I don't know how to solve.
das fediverse hat übrigens ein problem wenn eine instanz wie #FirefishSocial abkackt und accounts nicht mehr an ihren content kommen oder zumindest dort eine umleitung einrichten können
@freikampf 2.1k followers die den instanzwechsel zu @freikampf nicht mitbekommen]
Well, bad news! Due to major issues, the migration from #firefish to #sharkey failed quite miserably. The only way I was able to migrate was to install Sharkey under a slightly different domain and without my database 😢😭. Also, because I'm an admin of my server, the ability to use the migrate function from my profile has been blocked. This means that my followers will have to re-follow me on my new instance. I'll be keeping this instance going, in case I change my mind and want to return here. In the meantime, please follow me at my new instance at @kimberlymcblaze
Ich bin gerade mal am testen - Sharkey hat sich ja bei einer Tasse Kaffee ohne Probleme installieren lassen. Vor der Namensänderung hatte ich mal Calckey im Test - lohnt es sich noch Firefish zu testen?
Was macht Firefish besser als Sharkey oder was macht Sharkey besser als Firefish?
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.
I’m considering migrating backwards from Firefish to Mastodon. The “why” doesn’t matter. It’s something I’m contemplating for reasons.
I’m currently using #SpaceHost to run my single user Firefish instance, and my plan is to use them (or another) to host my single user Mastodon instance.
Same domain, btw.
I can’t find any info on this reverse migration. But it’s gotta be possible, right?
#Sharkey looks nice. I will write up a brief guide on how to migrate from #Firefish to Sharkey, and then urge users of calckey.world to migrate to sharkey.world.
I'll also re-install my own ruud.social to use Sharkey instead of #Akkoma.
Sadly it looks like #firefish is going to die a slow unmaintained death now, and I need to pick a successor to run.
#iceshrimp and/or #catodon appear to be the spiritual successors, but I think I'll be waiting to see who publishes and maintains a public Docker image first.
Alright here's a draft of adding post titles and slugified URLs to masto. Needs tests and a little tidying, but this is a first small step towards a couple things that i think will be cool to do halfway between microblogging and forums :) https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/pull/35
If anyone who knows rails and redux better than me wants to laugh at my code (but secretly i will be learning) then feel free to take a whap at it
(edit: yes i know other fedi things and in fact many normal websites already do this) #MastoDev
@jonny@boris#Firefish already has limitedmarkdown support. Along with QTs and partially-threaded feed. It's a fork of #misskey and it already has forks.
Ehrlich gesagt, ich selber habe die Option @firefish im #Fediverse noch nicht ausprobiert aber der @mho hat darüber berichtet und der @crossgolf_rebel eine ausführliche Anleitung dafür geschrieben. Für mich ein sehr guter #Input und erweitert mein #Wissen über das #Mastodon weiter hinaus.
Ob dem nun so ist wie ich es wahrnehme, muss ich mich mal damit auseinandersetzen. Die Unterschiede im Detail interessieren mich und sind wahrscheinlich auch Argumente für diese #Fediverse Anwendungen. Weshalb ich darauf komme und Details siehe oben.