I am delighted to announce that here at iBe Social we have migrated to #Sharkey :sharkey:
Sharkey is a fabulous variation of Misskey, with some great little extras. I hope everyone will enjoy using it as much as we have during our testing phase. We had setup a test server to let our users play around with it to decide if it was what they wanted.
#Firefish served us well, but it was time to move on to new and exciting things in Sharkey.
Massive kudos to @Amelia who did all the work on the migration. She took an unbelievably impressive 26 minutes to do the migration; I hardly had time to check my honey stocks!
Proud to be part of Sharkey, and open for visitors.
Recently I've seen posts that #Firefish project is in trouble? Its flagship server being unavailable, and people are impatient about new releases. Sad if true, though I hope its death is slightly exagerrated. Anyhow, I've learnt that people are migrating to other Misskey forks (mainly #IceShrimp, #Sharkey, and #Catodon) And Iceshrimp devs are rewriting the JS backend on C# 😯
i think what happend to #firefish is really said kainoa basicly had to pick between it or well living his life, and its obvious what is the better choice, but its also sad for all the #firefishadmins that now have to deal with this with out there even being announcement or the all the users on the firefish instances, as everything got taken down without any notice, firefish should have been alot more transparent about what was going on, now all servers are dead including fedi.software the host of the @firefish account and firefish.social host of the @kainoa account, which means there is basically no more way for them to do a public announcement over fedi now that both their main accounts do not exist anymore,
this entire situation is very sad, but please don't start harassing anyone involved
May firefish rest in piece, you served us well, up untill you didn't
We are offering direct help to any one migrating from #firefish to #sharkey, as the firefish project is now officially unmaintained, please remember tho that sharkey is a misskey soft-fork
also we won't be tolerating any harassment towards any of the firefish devs
I server FireFish.Social e joinfirefish.org sono completamente inattivi e non rispondono nemmeno più ai ping: significa che firefish è ufficialmente morto?
The flagship instance of Fire Fish is now OFFLINE.
The significance of this event is many of the Fire Fish Developers have previously come forward claiming the lead developer vanished. Unfortunately, the lead developer treated their project as a centralized project, meaning that they were the sole person making decisions, giving no access to accounts or code changes or even donations, despite having a team behind them.
Fire Fish is now a dead project with the lead developer missing for more than half a year, the remaining developers disbanding, and today, the flagship instance Fire Fish dot Social going OFFLINE.
It is strongly recommended that you migrate your instance to another platform.
You have options
Sharkey
Misskey
Mastodon
Please consider Fire Fish no longer receives updates, including security.
We are suspending #firefish.social due to it being unavailable, should the instance return this will be lifted, this is done to prevent a stock pile of queued jobs
The FireFish.Social and joinfirefish.org servers are completly down and don't even respond to pings anymore, this means #firefish is officially dead, the servers no longer run, the git server still runs but seems to be run by a different person than kainoa
We're sad to see firefish go down like this, and we're especially sad about all the users who's data is now gone due to both major instances going down
while this is a major blow to a lot of people, please don't start harassing any one that was involved in the firefish project harassing people isn't going to help, we should see firefish as something to learn from to see what went wrong and prevent something like that happening in the future
and a note be added, Sharkey is not a firefish fork, and does not intent feature parity with it, Sharkey is a misskey softfork its supposed to update with misskey, unlike other fork we will not do big actions like rewrites
It's almost time. We're super-excited. #FediGroups is entering public testing now, before a full live launch.
Many of us have used other Boosting Groups, but they only work well if you follow from Mastodon accounts. We know there is a wider fediverse. FediGroups works with all the favourites, including #Mastodon, #Firefish, #Iceshrimp, #Catodon, #Sharkey, and more. One big happy family 👪
Gibt es bei #Mastodon bzw. im #Fediverse einen Weg, sich über Kommentare zu einem spezifischen Post (oder zu allen Posts eines bestimmten Users) benachrichtigen zu lassen?
Es geht primär darum, dass ich Kommentare zu den förderierten Posts meines #Wordpress-Blogs gerne direkt in meinem Mastoson-Interface mitbekommen würde...
@Weltenkreuzer hast du mal #Firefish oder #Catodon getestet? Die bieten großartige Layout Optionen an, die meiner Meinung nach einem Twitter-Interface recht nahe kommen. Und sie implementieren die Mastodon API, sodass du Mastodon Apps nutzen kannst.
Alright, we wanna be as transparent as possible, so here's a small update on #Catodon's development: The idea so far was to have our first release more as a debloated, to some extent, version of firefish, which would be more like the foundation to build our next releases on, rather than something representative of what we want Catodon to be. But it turns out that, in order for things to be smooth in the first release, we'd have to fix some stuff that would need to be refactored anyway for the second release. So we realized it's better to just get directly to it.
So, what does this mean? We'll be sort of merging our first and second planned releases. This unfortunately means that we'll need more time to get where we want to. My advice to you, if you are running a #Firefish server and thinking of migrating, is to either stay on Firefish for the time being, or migrate to Iceshrimp - it will be easy to migrate to Catodon later if you want. The good news is that, when Catodon is finally released, I think it will be worth the wait, it won't be just a transitional version, and I'm much more excited now for the upcoming release. And yes, you can go back to Misskey and forget about firefish forks but... I wouldn't do that if I were you =)
admin accounts on firefish can't migrate. supposedly this can be fixed by commenting out one line in a file, then rebuilding, but this doesn't work with docker compose. this is a problem that I don't know how to solve.
das fediverse hat übrigens ein problem wenn eine instanz wie #FirefishSocial abkackt und accounts nicht mehr an ihren content kommen oder zumindest dort eine umleitung einrichten können
@freikampf 2.1k followers die den instanzwechsel zu @freikampf nicht mitbekommen]
Well, bad news! Due to major issues, the migration from #firefish to #sharkey failed quite miserably. The only way I was able to migrate was to install Sharkey under a slightly different domain and without my database 😢😭. Also, because I'm an admin of my server, the ability to use the migrate function from my profile has been blocked. This means that my followers will have to re-follow me on my new instance. I'll be keeping this instance going, in case I change my mind and want to return here. In the meantime, please follow me at my new instance at @kimberlymcblaze
Ich bin gerade mal am testen - Sharkey hat sich ja bei einer Tasse Kaffee ohne Probleme installieren lassen. Vor der Namensänderung hatte ich mal Calckey im Test - lohnt es sich noch Firefish zu testen?
Was macht Firefish besser als Sharkey oder was macht Sharkey besser als Firefish?