I'm a Japanese language learner, currently at N3 and wanted to look at some fediverse content in that language. Keep hearing about misskey, but registration is limited from outside of Japan? I'm going over there next month, does that mean I could open an account while I'm there?

Also a bit confused about how it works, when browsing as a guest everything seems to scroll at lightning speed, how is one supposed to use it?

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[–] Tuuktuuk@nord.pub 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Iceshrimp and Sharkey are forks of Misskey with more features. Are they still able to federate with it? How does Misskey federation work?

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They can federate as intended.

The question is the community. Most of Sharkey instance are English or other European languages.

[–] Tuuktuuk@nord.pub 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If it federates, what does that matter? Just read the Japanese Misskey content.

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You don't get local Japanese feed, which is the best way to randomly find new interesting things.

[–] Tuuktuuk@nord.pub 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But if you follow enough users, won't you start getting quite a good amount of that? Plus, you can probably just browse the local of some Misskey instance and then, if you want to comment or upvote, open it from within your own instance? It won't be perfect, but I would imagine it will do the job just fine for a student.

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

One thing that I forgot: Misskey has feature of instance-only post, which means a lot of people post won't federate.