Those wanting to try out an alternative to Mastodon, you're welcome to create an account on https://sharkey.world. #Sharkey has a very different layout, but most of the same features as Mastodon, and many features Mastodon hasn't. Just see for yourself, and it's fine to either use it as a second account, or you can decide to migrate your current account to it, if you really like it.
As seen in the first image, handles are broken when there are full stops in the username part of the handle.
The second image is what it looks like on #Mastodon. I'm not sure what's causing this, but it's a little concerning as it means that #Iceshrimp users can't mention people on Wordpress / BridgyFed or any other platform that uses this format.
The handle is mentioned fine when sent from a Mastodon account, but the link hasn't worked on my Iceshrimp account.
I can still follow the user, I just can't mention them.
I'm going to miss the longer post sizes and better post editing tools in #Iceshrimp or #Firefish. #Mastodon instances have some catching up to do in a lot of basic usability.
Oh well, it works, mostly, and I didn't feel like scrounging around for another Firefish or Iceshrimp server (or setting up my own).
been trying out #iceshrimp on a very nice instance - so far the differences might be too subtle for me to really recognize, but it does work very (maybe a little moreso than firefish) smoothly.
15-20 minutes to load last batch. As I mentioned before, one gots to be patient. Lol.
Slow search is not unique to iceshrimp in the fediverse. I have experienced similar things on a large friendica server.
I wonder how iceshrimp's search capabilites would hold up on a server 1000 users or more. Would iceshrimp even want to have software that supports such server size?
Just a note, iceshrimp may have only started to get slow for me after I loaded dozens if not hundreds of results initially.
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
Is there any way to have my instance fetch posts/notes after they've been sent? For example if I encounter a new person, I can't see any of their posts unless they're pinned. Or is that just a limitation of the fediverse, if your instance didn't see it when it happened, it doesn't exist? #help#sysadmin#instanceadmin#hajkey#iceshrimp
Feditext beta users, today's TestFlight build 69 includes various fixes and workarounds for Firefish and Hajkey.
we will be working with server devs to get some of those fixed on the server side (for Hajkey's case, in Iceshrimp), so that future clients won't have to special-case anything.
known not to work in this release:
Hajkey's suggested accounts to follow: displays an error message
intermittent foreign key constraint error when browsing Firefish or Hajkey timelines: you don't need to report this one, we're already investigating
a post by neon, introduced by "Neon says"; also contains part of a cropped image attached to the post: Date:24.09.23 05:12 Author:Neon Anchovy soup + noodles + turkey meat balls + some vege tonight (If you defrost your meat earlier, this whole thing is done in 30 mins, and I'm honestly a little lazy for anything more elaborate tonight) #MakanApaToday#Food
a boost by @geraineon, introdced by "Neon renotes"; the "renotes" points to the origins of firefish as a misskey fork > at misskey, posts are called notes and boosts are called renotes"; also contains part of a cropped image attached to the post: Date:24.09.23 05:48 Author:Neon Trisha Lynn 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 🇨🇦(@trishalynn) says: The finale of my birthday week presents is viewing a production of a play about the life of José Rizal, a Filipino hero I never studied in high school, despite there being a day dedicated to the Spanish-American war. At least the teacher didn't shy away from media that depicted exactly how racist some of the U.S. politicians were at the time. #PinoyPride
reply of @geraineon, introduced by "Neon replies" - includes not only the acc's reply to another post, but the whole threaded conversation: Date:24.09.23 05:19 Author:Neon @cendawanita wah so many days viral load still so high... how are you feeling today? @mivox Dendan Setia (Nins)(@cendawanita) replies: @mivox the crazy thing is I'm on day 8 and still positive. Wheeee I'm Typhoid Mary 😂 @geraineon mivox :ri:(@mivox) replies: @cendawanita@geraineon Sleepy was my biggest symptom. Took a couple days after I tested negative to Get over it too. Sleep as much as you can! 💜 Thankfully I never lost my sense of smell tho. Gawd that would be so weird, I hope it comes back quickly! Dendan Setia (Nins)(@cendawanita) replies: @geraineon thankfully my taste and smell has never been too closely connected, and I'm tasting all the stuff as normal - still feeling sleepy but mostly ok, tq tq Complete Story
please, sea creature key forks, stop sending my viewport down a page when i click the context menu button on a post (usually to get to the source instance)
and yes all three of them (that i know of) do that and it's a pain, misskey doesn't #firefish#sharkey#iceshrimp
I know that people who run #firefish servers are probably somewhat frustrated right now, since the project's last stable release was back in July. I do hope Kainoa gets more active and things start rolling again, however I checked the closest alternatives/firefish forks. Another thing that makes open source software great: you never run out of options!
So, #Iceshrimp still pretty much looks and feels like firefish, but they've added some nice (performance, mostly) improvements and also have better #mastodon api support. They also plan to do a full rewrite, which is quite an ambitious project. It's certainly a project worth watching.
#Sharkey on the other hand started as a firefish fork (from what I understood) but rebased to #Misskey v13 (Firefish had cut ties with upstream misskey on v12) and is building on top of that. This is also a great option if you like Misskey's direction but want improvements like post editing.
And finally with #Catodon, which is in the making and will soon be another option, we're taking a different approach. We'll implement some improvements from Iceshrimp, like the great work they've done on mastodon api support, but in general we won't exactly be taking the "improved misskey" direction. Instead, we'll be using Misskey/Firefish as our starting point, but we also want to simplify some things - as well as build extra functionality on top of the essentials. So some of the less important and useful features will be removed in order to offer a more consistent and user-friendly experience.
More on specific changes we're doing in a few days!
i knew that it is possible to delete other *key users' replies to my posts by deleting my original post, but i haven't known that deleting an original post entails deletion of other *key users' quotes of the deleted post > this is so cool :abunhdhappy:
Join Sharkey dot Org has been OFFLINE for over 2 months. The reason given was hosting issues, and this was before the whole Hetzner drama. Join Sharkey dot Org is supposed to be the gateway for people to learn about Sharkey and how they can join.
The Documentation Page (Wiki) is still up, using the subdomain, Doc dot Join Sharkey dot Org, but the URLs are broken. I have repeatedly reported the broken URLs for over 2 months (both in the Git and on their Discord Server). No one seems to want to address that.
They have a private copy of GitLab located at ActivityPub dot Software, that you cannot find via a search looking for Sharkey (DuckDuckGo, Bing, Google). That is where you can report code changes and fixes, but you would likely not know that unless you stumbled upon the URL somewhere (or someone gave you that URL).
Sharkey raised a lot of money so they can host their own content, safely, and securely. They now own their own physical server and lease the space to have that server housed (hosted) remotely. And while the lead developer promotes that server partially as a minecraft server, Join Sharkey dot Org still remains, OFFLINE.
I have pulled funding from Sharkey and will not be supporting it further until they get their act together. It is a good software, and it is my preferred method to use the Fediverse, but you would assume they would want their website working.
Hat hier jemensch einen Account auf https://iceshrimp.social und würde mir mal folgen um zu schauen ob der Follow bei mir ankommt ? Gibt scheinbar Diskrepanzen zwischen skyland.social und iceshrimp.social. Muss nur noch eroieren auf welcher Seite das Problem liegt.
Ich bin ja eigtl. ziemlich zufrieden instanzmäßig mit Sharkey. Mein Zufriedenheitslevel liegt bei etwa 80 % diesbezüglich. Wer mich kennt weiß, dass das schon extrem gut bewertet ist. In den letzten zwei Wochen habe ich mich noch mal genauer umgeschaut bez. #Sharkey, #Iceshrimp & #Firefish. Dazu habe ich ja auf meinem Backup Account auch kürzlich eine Umfrage gestartet. Die ist zwar noch nicht zuende, zeigt aber jetzt schon wie die Sachlage ausschaut.
Durch einen Kommentar von @alyx zu der Umfrage wurde ......... Ups, ich habe etwas missverstanden, daher hier ein :edit2: In dem Kommentar erfuhr ich folgendes bezüglich Iceshrimp:
Da die ganze misskey Basis 'nen ziemliches Chaos ist, arbeiten sie aktuell sogar an einem kompletten rewrite und kommen wirklich gut voran. Ist noch etwas Arbeit, ins besonders im Frontend, aber ich bin zuversichtlich, dass wir bis zum Ende des Jahres 'nen ordentliches release haben werden.
Das fand ich schon sehr spannend und ich freue mich auf den Tag wenn da ein Release kommen wird.
Und da mein erster und einziger Test von #Friendica schon sehr lange her ist, möchte ich mir das auch noch mal genauer anschauen.
Ich werde 100 %ig bis Jahresende weiter mit Sharkey fahren bzw. bis zum Release des "neuen" Misskey. Dann werde ich neu bewerten und schauen ob es FÜR MICH noch besser geht als mit Sharkey. Vielleicht legt ja bis dahin einer der anderen Kandidaten noch mächtig zu oder es kommt ein neuer großartiger Player mit ins Spiel. Jedenfalls wird dann eine Entscheidung fallen zwischen Sharkey, Misskey oder Friendica (?) wenn nichts ungeplantes passiert.
Mastodon wird nicht mehr in Betracht gezogen. Das liegt mittlerweile BEI MIR weit abgeschlagen ganz hinten weil zu viele Beschneidungen und fehlende Features. Ich betone extra "FÜR MICH" weil ich das nicht für alle schlecht reden will. Wenn 1 damit zufrieden ist, voll ok. Mir gefällts nicht mehr. Ich sage immer, mit Mastodon kann man im Fedi mitmischen. Mit z.B. Sharkey wird das Erlebnis #Fedi dann einfach FANCY :headbanging:
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