I understand where @AbandonedAmerica is coming from, and it's something I heavily struggled with before migrating from mastodon.social to calckey.social.
So I mean this from the bottom of my heart: we should not be defederating mastodon.social.
In fact, we should stop using Fediblock as the answer to all the Fediverse's problems. Been there, done that. Not something I want to do again.
Instead, we need to make it as easy as possible for people on mastodon.social to migrate elsewhere should they choose.
We should make the penalties from migrating be as trivial as possible. This is one reason #Calckey isn't just allowing users to migrate to a Calckey server from a #Mastodon server, but also why importing posts from a Mastodon account to Calckey is so critical too.
In other words, let's help people leave mastodon.social when they're ready to make the decision to leave.
This is just a friendly reminder to donate to the admins of whatever flavor of the #fediverse you're on. Server space, electricity, bills n shit. Those cost money.
I'm very sorry for all of the degraded performance lately on calckey.social. As you may or may not know, we've been testing changes with our codebase, database deployment, ims deployment, and a whole lot more. After a lot of testing and changes, I thought that we were good enough to start opening signups again. Turns out... we're not. As I continue to work on things and start team up with some very smart people who've worked in deployment and scaling systems, we're going to do our absolute best to make sure that we can handle things on all ends, and hopefully get extra hands on deck for day-to-day operations, so it's not all on my shoulders. I was sadly unable to attend to a lot of things yesterday due to being out of town for the holiday, and being in a no-service area for the majority of the day, so I didn't know that there were issues until it was too late. Thank you for your patience as we go through growing pains. A full write-up on what went wrong, the steps we took, and how it's fixed (once it's fixed!) will be made after all this is done. For real.
I did NOT expect this amount of support, interest, and coverage! Hitting 13k from 11k in a little over 2 days across all servers is still boggling my mind. And it's not just calckey.social -- so many other servers are getting new users, and even ~30 new servers cropped up! Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. I'll make sure that I do my hardest to make sure you all have a great experience.
As promised, you all deserve a peak into what we've been working on in secret for months. More details to come tonight/tomorrow. Stay tuned. 😉
#introduction Hey everyone~ I'm Sam, I write code for a living. Started when I was 11, self taught, and never stopped learning or working since! I'm 28 now, and wow does that feels weird to say.
Been trying out different #fediverse things ever since the #birdsite went up in 🔥s. Trying to find a new home online, and thought this place looked rather interesting.
I love to play #games, so a big #gamer. I #stream sometimes, but a tad #shy so trying to get over that. Actually do #gamedev as a hobby. If I find something interesting enough, I usually start contributing towards it...so never sure what I'll be up to next.
Hopefully this place becomes my new home. Thanks for reading and maybe following if I'm interesting enough for ya~
Gotta say, first impressions of #calckey are pretty good. Love the length of posts, and how I can mark them up. I'm a #markdown fanboy so yay. Hit me up & let's chat about something fun, woo~
It is up and running -- and everything is functioning great!
However, it is not yet open for registrations. I have a little more configuring to do, particularly with the TOS. However, it will be open and available to more people soon 🎉
Here's what the landing page currently looks like. I might eventually change the background image -- I want something more welcoming and positive 😊
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 is no question kbin is the stronger product right now. It feels more mature than Lemmy , even where it isn't. What we're discussing right now is #Calckey implementing the group actor ahead of schedule, at which point, it will basically have precisely the same features as Kbin/Lemmy (it already has threading). With all the rest of the tools already in Calckey, it will a good solution for ambitious communities.
We got many feedback since our last message. Yes, embedding #CalcKey with #Fedilab will be done.
Calckey devs are ready to help us if we have issues/questions. Thanks for their support @calckey
A massive thank you to to every server admin on the #Fediverse who tried to keep their server going under the tsunami wave of posts about Eurovision - whether your server was #Mastodon, #Calckey, #Pixelfed, #Friendica, etc. You all did a fantastic job on the night, no matter the result. I would like to think everyone cannot thank you enough.
Seeing everyone participate in Eurovision on the Fediverse was spectacular. I've never seen so much excitement and chatter before. I felt like I was part of a wholesome community - something I've longed for in other social media platforms, but never truly got with all the anger, aggression, and trolling. None of that was here, and it made the Fediverse absolutely beautiful! ❤️
Usually I polish my work a bit more before releasing it publicly, but I really wanted to give people interested in making fediverse apps for everyone a bit of a head start.
Here's a very work-in-progress authentication server I use for my fediverse connections data visualization project:
Again, I have to re-iterate this: https://calckey.social registrations are closed today.
Nor am I giving away invitation codes.
I know there's lots of demand, but we've been crushed by an on rush of registration requests over the past few days -- and we need to ensure a better experience for current https://calckey.social users.
In the meantime, here's a list of other #Calckey servers:
"Calckey heißt jetzt Firefish, … sonst ändert sich nüscht." 😉
Hab die Meldung mal aktualisiert:
Alles was auf Mastodon fehlt: Firefish im Fediverse mit zig Zusatzfunktionen
Die Zahl der Twitter-Alternativen wächst und wächst. Während die meisten das Vorbild ziemlich stark nachbauen, gibt es aber auch Versuche, weiterzudenken.
So, I tried installing #Threads to check it out, but I ended up uninstalling it pretty quickly. Here's the deal: it's just another Twitter clone that's all about algorithms.
I get it, that's what most people are into. I understand that influencers, media, and celebrities attract a lot of attention. But that's just not my thing.
I might sound a bit "weird," but I actually prefer my reverse chronological feed where I have complete control over what and who I see. If I want to discover more stuff, I'll just use #Calckey's search feature, which may not be the best but works well enough for me.
Oh, and I deleted my Meta accounts for a good reason. Whenever I'm there, I feel this weird sense of discomfort, like I need a good shower afterwards.
I know I'm not your typical user. I've been part of the Fediverse since 2018 and have genuinely enjoyed it, even when it was just a small community of a few thousand people. We have a nice little community going on over here, and I don't need all the fancy stuff that Threads is offering right now.
I'm not trying to bash Threads or judge anyone who uses it. It's just not the right fit for me, plain and simple.