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.
Just learned about the demise of #Firefish (head is M.I.A.). It's unfortunate for the thousands of instances running it, but with that comes #IceShrimp, #Sharkey, and #Catodon. All of them (I think) are being developed by former Firefish devs. Options.
Hopefully, current FF users are all, if they want to, able to move to another actively-developed community easily.
HEY YOU, YEAH YOU. I FUCKIN' LOVE YOU BUNCHES MANG.
Seriously, refugee here from the twinazi facestagram linkedspace kermudgeon-space. It's been rough out there, and it'll go through more rough patches when we get Threads and Tumblr and stuff.
But you're real people. I've already found my raw, real people here even though I don't really know any of the people I talk to on the daily in real life. That's how awesome this place is. It's gonna get filled with more people I do know, and tons more I don't, but the algorithm is nada and the filtration system to whatever I want to see is there. And so are you. And that makes it PERFECT!.
Finally made the jump off #FireFish, and swapped the live server over to #IceShrimp. Not an entirely smooth process if I'm honest - the migration instructions take a bit too much for granted. I've made records though, so I'll try to suggest alterations. Anyway, nice to be here 👋
I just discovered that my #firefish account (@irfan) might have already been "migrated" to this account, but my connections/followers did not come with lol - so I'm gonna probably initiate following my (old) connections on here first from an old backup of my following list on there.
I absolutely love the #Sharkey instance I'm on, #sakurajima.social. Being able to load it up at any random time I want and finding it available and waiting for me rather than me waiting for it to be back up again is a privilege I do not take lightly.
That being said, I kinda wish there's a way to personalise (Sharkey) for myself further since there are 2 things I miss about kitsunes.club, another Sharkey instance. The default "Like" emote on there was a red heart, it's a star on here - which is fine, but I wish there's a way to set our default "Like" reaction to be for our account. Another thing I missed from kitsunes is its font was a lot more pleasant/readable for me? I've no idea what typeface they're using, but I'd love to be able to configure a font for Sharkey specifically for my account but that's probably tougher to implement. The font used on here is more akin to the one used on #firefish.social.
UPDATE:
THERE IS a way to set the default like emoji for your account on Sharkey. The setting for it resides in Settings > Emoji picker > Default like emoji.
The typeface used on kitsunes.club is the default font used by Sharkey, Lexend. sakurajima.social made a change to use the font, Myriad Pro. You can restore the default font used by adding the provided code block from the following link to your Settings > General > Custom CSS.
It doesn't matter if you are new to the #fediverse or if you have been here forever, it's always good to keep in mind that (a) what server you pick, and (b) what software that server runs, matter.
I should admit am fairly new at this. I created my first fediverse account only a year ago. It was a #mastodon server with about 8,000 users. And while it "worked" there was something missing from the experience.
While researching the idea of hosting my own server, I discovered #FireFish which in turn led to discovering #IceShrimp. It's hard to describe how much better the experience is with IceShrimp.
The #UI is just so much better, and the feature set way more robust. The way it handles replies, the ability to quote, to use multiple emojis, etc.
If you have friends or family thinking about joining the Fediverse or are feeling unimpressed with your mastodon experience, I highly recommend getting an account running IceShrimp or other similar software.
Probably also worth mentioning that I also looked at using a #Wordpress integration and #Hubzilla#GoToSocial#Pleroma#Humhub and #Streams. I found them to be clunky; reminding me of how email was in the early 90s.
If the fediverse is going to thrive, then it needs to make a good first impression. Moving beyond mastodon is a good step in the right direction.
An interesting feature of the Misskey forks (#Forkeys) is Pages, long form posts with a CMS editor. I wrote about it, and the changes you can expect over the next year! Check it out.