You can follow the #blahajzone and #Hajkey hashtags from your secondary accounts should performance further degrade here while @supakaity does the backend migrations etc
I'm posting to these hashtags from my @jo#Iceshrimp account.
You can follow the #blahajzone and #Hajkey hashtags from your secondary accounts should performance further degrade here while @supakaity does the backend migrations etc
I'm posting to these hashtags from my @jo#Iceshrimp account.
#Hajkey uses the well-known DuckDuckGo rather than the unknown search engine shipped with #Firefish. Thank you to @maikel who has made this his first PR to #Iceshrimp.
Is it worth having different accounts on different instances like as a backup?
I'm very happy where I am at the moment especially seeing the move/migration to #iceshrimp/#hajkey on blahaj.zone its a super cool idea :drgn_happy:
Just wondering if there been any times where an instances just dropped off without notice? It's actually my biggest fear with alot of things here on the fedi but I guess that's just the risk ones take here?
For #blahajzone folks wondering why our #Hajkey / #Iceshrimp and #Lemmy servers (with ~8000 user accounts between them have been struggling lately. We're gonna try a new strategy to contain costs while our usership grows so there'll be some further backend migrations happening.
We're also gonna be merging the latest #Iceshrimp changes into #Hajkey. Hopefully will resolve more of the bugs than add new ones.
And I say we cos while not a mod or admin here, I'm user #9 who's been here using this as my main driver for a long time. I know these gals IRL, love them both to bits, and even when we disagree on fediverse stuff I have never lost trust in them.
@sara Just to clarify, blahaj.zone uses our own fork, #Hajkey, which, going forward will be pushing our PRs to Iceshrimp. Whether Firefish and Iceshrimp end up diverging dramatically is yet to be seen, but some of the safety stuff that Kaity has been working on and was knocked back by Firefish will now see wider implementation through Iceshrimp.
@sotolf Looks like firefish has some nice features 🙂. What's the maximum post length? It's difficult to find specs on firefish because it's an actual fish and as such most search queries I tried point to fishy websites😒 . Luckily a search on calckey gives more details.
@sotolf It's defined by the admin of your instance. Here on blahaj.zone we maintain the #hajkey fork and the character limit here is 8000 characters @deightonrobbie@sotolf
My follow request section has a blinking dot like there's something in there, but there isn't... How do i make it stop? #calckey#firefish#iceshrimp#hajkey
A few people have asked us now about the future of Hajkey, given the recent changes with Calckey becoming Firefish and the Iceshrimp fork of that. So I thought I'd make a post, now that I can type again and let you know where we're at.
I have been taking a small break from adding new features to Hajkey recently because my left arm has basically been useless for the last month after breaking it, but I'm now able to partially touch type again, and my arm is incrementally better each day.
However my reticence with writing new code has been going on for a bit longer than that.
I was in a dev chat room with a few devs, trying to pursuade that the safety of a minority group is paramount whilst trying to justify the addition of a new safety feature. I was tyring to make the point that a feature which may initially confuse some people is worth it if we protect just one minority person. I also tried (without luck) to address the (valid) concerns about how to implement the feature with minimal potential for confusion.
However, I feel like while the majority of minority people present in the room agreed, my point was ultimately worn down and overruled by a single person who I feel didn't understand what such a feature would mean for the safety of those needing protection.
I am ashamed to say that I felt a lot of disempowerment and lost a lot of forward momentum when that happened, questioning my own compass which said that I should push ahead, but pushing ahead without an implementation in other instances would make my new feature a non-starter.
I don't see a lot of diverse fediverse projects around which focus on security features to protect the vulnerable or that have dev leads that have experience with existing in a society with a greatly diminished privileged status. This means that they are not as concious of the features that are important to us and other underprivileged or minority groups.
I am proud to run one myself, and as a female and transgender person (and whilst acknowedging my own significant privilege), I think that gives me somewhat of a unique and valuable perspective, so it excites me to see that there's a new project (Iceshrimp) starting, focussing more on security and safety and less on flashy new sparkles and bling. I feel like this will ultimately be a good thing for the fediverse.
In the FOSS world, diversity is, like in the real world, a fantastic thing. It drives innovation, allows greater choice, avoids stagnation, vendor siloing, narrow minded thinking and generally inproves the overall health of the entire ecosystem.
So I congratulate @april on their new project. I'm looking forward to great things from Firefish and Iceshrimp, both of which are rich with diverse developers. While Firefish can focus on the flashy usability and experience tack, Iceshrimp can help fill the sorely needed safety aspects. The good features from both will help improve the quality of experience and ultimately our end users will benefit.
As far as Hajkey is concerned, we'll still be our own fork, still doing our own little thing, but we will be directly downstream of Iceshrimp and will be pushing our changes back upstream to the 'shrimp.
We made this choice as we feel that this project more closely aligns with our overall goals and has less focus on the commercial/sponsorship side of things which we are uncomfortable with. Also this way the trademark issue (while not a blocker for us) is something we don't have to worry about biting us in the future.
We're also not planning a name change at this point. We like Hajkey as a name and don't currently see a compelling reason to change that.
@supakaity@april Thanks for all your hard work and for the update, I seen posts around about "iceshrimp spreading propaganda about firefish" or something but it just felt like people had a sports team beef lol.
For mine I'm super happy with blahaj.zone and trust you and @ada and look forward to the future of #Hajkey :Blobhaj_Heart_Rainbow:
I hope #Hajkey keeps developing for blahaj.zone and similar communities, particularly the long sought after #FediverseSafety features that never seem to arrive on the #Fediverse and become more important as greater adoption occurs and user culture changes - like the amount of transphobic users that Lemmy has brought here and the dev bros think this is progress. #Firefish#Calckey#IceShrimp@maegul
And now we're nearly at 1000 accounts and it still feels like an oasis from hate. I love that this place exists, our safety is paramount, and that won't change regardless of what other servers do. #trans#fediverse#fediversesafety#calckey#hajkey#findaserver
to add a cw to an existing post written by somebody else is both intriguing and new - so i am not surprised about confusion regarding this concept ❤️ #cw#contentwarnings#hajkey#fediverse