Looking for name ideas for my future Sharkey instance.
I need to get off of this ridiculous Mastodon ride. Technically, I guess I COULD just do something temporary and then when I delete this instance, remake it with Sharkey and migrate again. I'd have "social" back, but that seems like a lot of work.
It's just gonna be me 99% of the time typing it in manually, so I want to keep it short, but also make sense or even funny/witty.
I have so many follow relationships with so many talented people here!
It's so great to see all of you and your interesting projects and creations across such a variety of hobbies and professions.
It's only going to get better with Threads federation under way! Future of Fedi will sure be interesting and I'm glad to be a part of something that could fundamentally change the way "Internet" is done as a whole.
The future awaits. After years of gaining steam, Fedi has arrived.
Better start looking for a Sharkey compatible iOS app I guess....IceCubes doesn't seem to support it, even though Sharkey claims to use the Mastodon API, I guess that's not enough for seemless app usage....😬
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.
No matter, how you connect to the Fediverse, be if, for example, Misskey, Sharkey, Ice Shrimp, Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Kbin, or by other means, the Fediverse instance you're using cost money. In the real world, web hosting, bandwidth, and storage space cost, money. And the more members who use and join your Fediverse instance (server), the more resources and the most it cost.
I earned by badge, by reaching out to my administrator, and helping them by donating. And while if it was not required to make a donation or regular contribution, I like using the Fediverse. It is ad-free and decentralized, meaning, someone like Elon Musk, cannot change things for everyone, everywhere, solely on their latest mood swing. So I made the choice to help fund my corner of the collective social media network, known as the Fediverse.
Does anyone know why I can upload files fine in Sharkey, I can see in the bucket they appear and through its interface I can download and look at them, all works well. But Sharkey itself can’t load the images! They show up as very blurry things, with correct:ish colors, somehow, but with “This image cannot be loaded” errors..
They're the mascot for #SharkeyWorld, an instance powered by @Sharkey (cc: @ruud). It's a community of roughly ~120 members, and part of the rapidly growing squad of instances based on this #Misskey fork. #OhHaai
Haai is also the Dutch word for shark, and also is a homophone for a greeting (Hi!).
@ve3qbz I was using Firefish but the project kind of died. I migrated over the weekend to Sharkey.
Both Firefish and Sharkey are forks of Misskey.
Misskey and all its forks (there are a lot. Seriously a lot.) all use Activity Pub under the hood and I believe implement a lot of their APIs in a Mastodon-compatible way as well.
The initial config was super easy. The hardest thing about it was getting Let's Encrypt cert generating working. If you know any Docker, it's a breeze.
Even the migration from Firefish to Sharkey was pretty easy. The hardest part there was doing some database migrations, but the Sharkey team have great documentation and are super helpful in their Discord channel.
In the past I've tried to set up both Mastodon and Hubzilla and both were absolute torture compared to getting Sharkey online. I really recommend it!
If you're thinking about hosting your own instance, I can't recommend it enough. It doesn't take much hardware- I'm running on an old small form factor desktop from 10+ years ago.
It won't be too hard if you have any experience hosting your own web apps and either know a little Docker or are willing to try it.