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Calckey is now Firefish (calckey.social)
submitted 11 months ago by Blaze@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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[-] SpringMango7379@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Can anyone ELI5 what the difference is between Mastodon and Firefish? Are they basically the same but a different instance similar to sh.itjust.works vs lemmy.world?

[-] simple@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

It's sort of like the difference between Lemmy and Kbin, they're different websites that share the same concept and can communicate with one another.

[-] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Yep! And they have different styling & feature sets that some may prefer, like Firefish has full text search & quoting posts unlike Mastodon for a super basic yet big difference.

There's also a bunch of other features I haven't dug into much that are interesting, like "antennae" for following words/hashtags and widgets for a variety of things. I don't know how well they all work, but overall it's aiming to be much more robust than Mastodon.

[-] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago

quoting posts unlike Mastodon

what happens when a Firefish user quotes a post and it federates to Mastodon? Is the quote lost?

[-] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Not sure tbh...It may be, or it may try to convert it to a link to the quoted post instead.

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