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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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[-] simple@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Great. I always wondered why they decided on calckey, it always just sounded like a third-rate calculator found on Google Play. I really like the new logo.

[-] 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.

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 11 months ago

Oh thank goodness, I could hardly think of a worse name than Calckey for a social media service.

In all seriousness, glad to see them growing. Hope to see them succeed!

[-] Blaze@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

Link to the updated platform website: https://joinfirefish.org/

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 5 points 11 months ago

OK, that's some cool branding, and some cooler features. I love how the OSS community social media services are building off of each other, and improving.

[-] leraje@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Calckey (or Firefish now I guess) is a really great product, its much more customisable than Mastodon in look and feel, it's easy to create site-wide themes for example.

[-] Blaze@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Yes, I just created an account, it looks so much better than Mastodon!

[-] 0x0@social.rocketsfall.net 3 points 11 months ago

Have heard good things re: customization and layout. Any support for Lemmy/kbin? Seems they're aiming to cover most fediverse platforms.

[-] Blaze@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

There is a compatibility table on the link I posted in another comment

[-] applecore@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Mastodon Pixelfed Peertube Akkoma Friendica and more

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