Antennas.
Antennas are effectively custom timelines. They work approximately like watching hashtags, but they can look for normal text as well. You can add as many phrases as you like and the results can be filtered with an ignore list.
You can make an antenna that just shows posts from specific users and notifies you when they post something new, you can make an antenna that collects posts containing or excluding certain key words, or you can make an antenna that collects only posts with files attached. You can even make an antenna consisting of “Posts from specific users” with “Show replies” checked.
Setting up
You can set up antenna by going to the More! section on your sidebar, and selecting Antennas. Press Add + to create your first. This is where you can also manage & edit previously created antennas.
Images:
Where to find More! on the sidebar (highlighted)
Where to find Antennas in the More! menu (highlighted)
My antennas page showing Add + button and my previously created antennas.
4 & 5) When you click Add + you get this page to set up your antenna. I've set one up as my Calckey antenna and another to alert me when PastaThief posts. There's a lot to go through here. Expect a separate post sometime soon.
6 & 7) What those antenna feeds look like.
On our progressive web app you can access your antennas by selecting the UFO in the top right corner.
Clicking on the UFO button brings up all my antennas and the link to manage/edit them
There's been a lot of death wishes during the past few days towards multiple people.
But here's what gets me. Out of my own pocket, I'm providing a #Calckey server for people who want defederation from Meta. I already bought a domain, and am setting it all up as we speak.
Are those extremists who are uttering death wishes doing anything tangible besides wishing death upon those who disagree? Are they providing servers that are pre-emptively defederated from Meta? Are they providing any infrastructure for a Meta-free Fediverse?
Da meine jetzige #Calckey Instanz den Geist aufgegeben hat und ich auf der Suche nach einer Neuen bin, hat jemand Erfahrung mit federation.network in Sachen Moderation und geblockten Instanzen?
Whilst I am worried they will try the old “embrace, extend, extinguish” plan, I must admit I’m quite excited for #Meta to join their apps into the #Fediverse.
An extra 2bn people to talk to on here! And the ones who really enjoy it will find out they can switch to #mastodon or #calckey or one of the others for a similar experience but with no ads and better moderation. Nice!
What's confusing me is that when I try to login to #Calckey with my Mastodon client, it redirects the browser to /oauth/token (the Mastodon auth url) but Calckey seems to redirect me to /auth/SOMETOKEN?mastodon=true I suppose this a compatibility thing.
Any good #CalcKey#android clients? Firefox seems to work fine for mobile, but I onboarded to #Mastodon with @Tusky and recently @apps but it seems like the CalcKey web client has more/different features. Wondering if there were recommended clients.
Being able to export my social graph on the Fediverse from Mastodon, then import it into on an entirely different service like Calckey without having to start over has broken my brain.
There really isn't a walled garden on the Fediverse! Adding my Mastodon followers worked flawlessly. I could even import my lists! Rebuilding my content filter rules is a bit of a daunting task best left for some other time. I'm going to enjoy this for a bit.
The enhanced features of MFM posting seem very nice too. A post preview to prevent formatting mistakes? Markdown language with custom emoji? 3k character count? Reactions? All Sweet. I also appreciate being able to add hashtags in their own space without having to insert them throughout the post. It makes texts much easier to read.
It seems like it is a rewrite/alternative server to the mastodon server. Looks to be written in Rust. It is a fork of #misskey, which seems to be written in typsescript
But since it uses ActvityPub, it's interoperable with Mastodon
Seems like you can't migrate your Mastodon account over.
So basically an alternative microblogging interface to the fediverse with different server software.
Something I've not seen mentioned by @atomicpoet and others when talking about #CalcKey is that it supports server administrators displaying you #ads by pushing them into your timeline.
This can apparently be turned of in user settings in CalcKey, and is documented more by the MissKey project (from which CalcKey is forked):
I will try to reintroduce them to the #Fediverse, but this time promote #Misskey & #Calckey as viable options.
I believe the window of opportunity for this will be short, as I assume (I have not evidence for this, so be skeptical) Threads will launch managed hosting options within months of entering the Fediverse.
Si cela intéresse quelqu’un de tester une Instance Calckey française, je viens d’ouvrir les inscriptions de Peculiar Florists. Calckey est réputé pour avoir une plus belle interface que Mastodon, par exemple.
S’il-vous-plaît, le service est nouveau donc si vous rencontrez n’importe quel bug ou soucis, n’hésitez pas à me DM, je suis à votre disposition et vos retours m’aideront à améliorer grandement le service. Pour utiliser sur portable, une application web (PWA) est disponible et très agréable à utiliser, n’hésitez pas à me contacter pour plus d’information
C’est encore à peaufiner mais tout le légal est là, c’est pour ça que je me permets d’ouvrir les portes :D (toutes vos données restent en France, Paris)
Je ne laisserai pas les portes indéfiniment ouvertes, une fois quelques inscriptions faites, je pense passer en invitation seulement pour pouvoir garder un service correct pour tout les utilisateurs
I think we should slightly rethink how login works on most Fediverse apps (Mastodon, Lemmy, but not only)
A while ago I posted a thread back on the...