ArtBear

ArtBear, 4 months ago to Help

I lost all my people as the migration off the (rather broken) Firefish.social server hasn't worked properly.

Could ppl boost this post please so I can reconnect with folks again?

Much appreciated! ❤️#Introduction #help

ArtBear, 4 months ago to Russia

So! I used the new blog section of #Catodon to do a column type thing. Pretty cool functionality, so many possibilities. I'm interested to hear what others think of the blog section?

#Russia's actions seem really confusing, but... https://catodon.social/@ArtBear/pages/1704330446022

RickiTarr, 4 months ago to random

What animal do you think best represents you?

ArtBear, 4 months ago to Finland

Functional democracy, + collective bargaining.
#Finland #CollectiveBargaining #Unions #NoBillionaires

ArtBear, 4 months ago to random

I'm giving Catodon.social a go.
Unfortunately Firefish.social has become so broken it doesn't even respect migration requests (let alone post downloads). So a lot of people will miss seeing my move 🫣. I suppose people will find me again over time, but that's a real shame for a server to get that neglected.
I do also have my @ArtBear account which I won't be migrating (it's just offline for DB maintenance for a few hours, don't freak out anyone).

Why Catodon?
I'm sure other projects are interesting too.
I liked how @panos interacted & was committed to community building on #firefish.social. I feel like it's important for any dev team to have in mind Community, not just features, nor just admin, nor just moderation it's all really important but community is the base. I liked how he posted his frustrations with the very large parts of the firefish project that were not a team endeavour that could be picked up & redistributed, but solely resting on only 1 individual. I like the Catodon mission statement about being a team wanting to dev for a lot of servers, and not dev for some mega flagship server (which is a vulnerability of fedi. decentralised & well distributed is good). Also the 1st set of improvement notes were really good at logical cleanup, changes & taking the good parts of stalled firefish forward again, but in a more streamlined direction.

Right away #Catodon feels like an old friend, I really missed:

markdown!
awesome super customisable UI!
properly rendered links so you don't have to click away!
multi links in a single post!
proper quote posts! (really it's users, not features!)
threading display so you actually know if you're in a thread & where!
floating user info cards with actions like follow (not clicking away to a profile)!
custom emoji reactions! (like 😻 or 🥴not just ⭐!)
custom feeds & also lists, are amazingly flexible, you really need to try them!
widgets!
storage with all media for re-use (with editable #altText!!)!
search your contentsearchbox [search]post controls!
blogs (pages)!
forums (channels)!
8000 word limit (be afraid, be very afraid muhahaha!)
and so much more...

Anyway, here's to a new #Fedi adventure! ​:catodon:​💜🐻🎉