Calckey is a Fediverse server type which includes lots of features that Mastodon doesn't yet have, such as emoji reactions, markdown, customisable interfaces, widgets and lots more.
To see for yourself, have a look on the official website at:
For the first time ever, I’m torn about whether I should stay on mastodon.social.
Being here has given me a voice I’ve never had, to talk about a topic that I feel strongly about, and I feel I’ve made the world a slightly different place.
But I also wonder if mastodon.social is becoming even more hostile to the rest of the Fediverse.
But it's also not entirely @gruber's fault because the media doesn't really talk about the Fediverse, and when they do, it's as a synonym for "Mastodon".
How would @gruber know about the massive development efforts to build more user-friendly alternatives to Mastodon?
No one in the media talks about the growth of *key apps, and how they're now the #2 most used Fediverse platform.
The main reason why I can't move from my current #Pleroma installation to anything else ( #Akkoma, #Misskey, #Calckey, #Hubzilla or #Friendica ) is that none of them accept importing an existing backup from a different service into a brand-new account. At most you can migrate your address but not your posts.
I’d like to thank everyone on calckey.social for the overwhelming love and support.
When I woke up this morning, I had no idea that interest in #Calckey would pick up this much. It’s been a challenge getting everything up to our preferred standard, but we’ve made significant progress.
I’d also like to thank all the other Calckey servers who’ve picked up our slack. And the entire dev team deserves praise for making software that so many people love.
https://mastodon.social being down, presumably because they're testing some of their latest features they're working on, and in the process kicking 1 million out of the 11.8 million people* (thanks @nemobis for the correction) from the fediverse is a good reminder to check out other Mastodon instances, or even other fediverse services and platforms.
@stefan
> from the fediverse is a good reminder to check out other Mastodon instances, or even other fediverse networks.
There are noch "other fediverse networks". The only network is the #Fediverse with a lot of different services and platforms - Mastodon is one of all them.
And yes - if you will stay on a Mastodon implementation you can search for an other server - there are out many of them. And if you whan to go further you can choose a platform wiht #Plermoma, #Friendcia, #Hubzilla, #Misskey, #Calckey and others only for Microblogging. For other services you find more.
This doesn't really answer the question *, sure clients will have various monetization models (though WTH is transactions). The issue is what is the server/Bluesky PBLLC business model?
Are they going to start putting ads in the feed? Are they going to charge users or clients for access? Stay free and make it up in volume? I have no clue, not sure anyone does either.
@llewelly@fediversenews Except that #Calckey was never based on Mastodon in the first place, but on #Misskey, which is a separately developed microblog service than Mastodon, even if one based on #ActivityPub and, as such compatible with the whole of the #Fediverse, Mastodon include.
That said, the Calckey team IS working on adding a #MastodonAPI compatibility layer to their webapp, but right now very little of it is supported. (Thanks @atomicpoet for that info, by the way. 😉)
🧵 #Calckey (1) A bit of background and experience if you're wondering about an explosion of chat
1️⃣ It's not new, it's a fork of #Misskey - big in Japan, with 300,000+ users in the #Fediverse :fediverse:
2️⃣ Very much early adoption for now imo, but tonnes of potential
Pros for me -
❤️ A gorgeous desktop UI plus a decent mobile PWA app
⭐ Some very cool features, Mastodon++, which I may post on more in time
👩💻 Fantastic responsive dev team support, I'm talking with 5-6 of them here & on Codeberg
✅ As it's a fork, it's pretty stable, think Beta-2
Why aren't I migrating yet?
🚫 There's no "Edit Post" yet. It's in development in phases. I'm involved in testing it ie not vaporware
⚠️ There's functionality to migrate posts between servers, but it's a bit "Beta-1" imo ... scope and server impacts
⚠️ Needs smoothing overall & 3rd-Party App development
And:
:ms_red_question_mark: As a user I'm unsure on maturity of admin-side tools
It looks decent, people are trying it - here's our Active User graph on calckey.social:
So, for my further #fediverse journey, I dropped #Misskey from the list for the time being as it doesn’t offer account transfers, which I find essential. Remaining are #Friendica, #Calckey and potentially #Mastodon, would need to move to a hosted service for more characters, but still no markdown… Now thinking about self-hosting Friendica or Calckey and also #Pixelfed later down the line once it supports account migrations… Decisions, decisions….
🤣 I was showing one of my mutual followers how the $[x2 ...], $[x3 ...], and $[x4 ...] tags could be used to increase the heading's size on a #misskey/ #calckey post. I used the x3 tag to demonstrate this feature, and $[x3 it was HUGE!] I was surprised at how big it was, so I tried to tone it down a bit by using an $[x2 x2] tag, but it didn't show up on their calckey instance.
Remember folks, if #Mastodon isn't for you, there are many other corners of the #fediverse.
#Pleroma#Akkoma#Misskey and #CalcKey: (mostly) compatible with Mastodon apps, admins can run various different front ends, support editing posts and quote posting.
Let me know if you're interested in any of these other platforms and I'll be happy to help.
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.
Finally gotten #MissRirica to work on the #MacOS side of things! (Which will also translate to #Android if I use that version).
Bad News:
A. Ya need to generate an access token from the #Misskey instance you’re on via the web interface among the ‘Settings’ section.
B. Not surprisingly, the app’s interface is… Um…
#Misskey#Calckey question, I know it's not built in, but is there any library or script I could use to delete my old posts? I find myself wanting to post on Mastodon rather than Calckey simply for the auto-deletion feature.
I've been hearing a lot more talk about #Misskey and #Calckey, and have checked out calckey.social to see a surprisingly clean UI. Its feature richness is also appealing without going into feature-creep territory.
Will I migrate? Not anytime soon. Unless something happens to this instance, I'll be staying here until I set up my own instance. Though, now I'll decide if I want my future instance to be a Mastodon instance or a Calckey instance.
Once I get a stable job, I'm thinking of setting up a Mastodon/(Miss/Calc/Found)key server for me and my immediate family (which), but I'm debating on whether or not to go the #Mastodon route or go the #Misskey route; I know that Misskey may be easier to use because it only uses #javascript for its stack compared to Mastodon using JavaScript and #Ruby for its stack. I'm also debating what policies to implement to moderate my server; I will for sure adopt my current server's rules with a few edits, but I don't know what other rules I should enforce and how to enforce them.