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How to Move from Mastodon to Firefish
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I'd be more interested in why than how
Everything is moving so quickly these days, and the exodus from other failing sites along with the expectations of those transitioning from them is creating a crescendo that is just unrealistic.
So many people have been working very hard to keep up with all of these new and increasing demands (and they ought to be credited for that), but what is lacking is patience for those working behind the scenes.
They’re doing a great job, but, for God’s sake, give them some slack!
It does everything Mastodon does but more, honestly. I use both, and definitely prefer Firefish. But I’m a developer so a lot of things about Mastodon really bothered me. The core difference is Firefish fka Calckey is being developed much faster and with a more modern stack. The click to play MFM feature was developed in a few days when the community was concerned about potential seizures due to unasked for auto playing or animated text.
A few key features: QT & Full text search (search I don’t use except for specific posts so can’t speak to that) MFM & cat mode (these are just fun, Misskey flavored markdown has things like tada and sparkle and rainbow. People make art with it)
Probably more important are features such as channels and pages which are more like Facebook or MySpace. People have compared it to Tumblr because you can completely customize the interface. I hope it intros some more people to programming
You can react with cute sticker-like things to a toot and that's all it took to really convince me. Also I feel like there's a lot more artists there
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The interface is more customizable, and there are more features (quote posts, for instance)
mastodon didn’t have quote posts because:
it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way
Some mastodon apps do support quotes though, by loading any linked toots in the posts themselves
That just sounds like them deciding how I can communicate. Quoting is not inherently toxic, they're just used to how Twitter users utilize it. I've also seen plenty of people use quoting of posts for boosting someone's post without copying it, since copying it breaks the link back to the original post. I used to quote-tweet Patreon, GoFundMe, or donation link posts sometimes.
I'm with you. If we keep migrating to something else we'll never actually settle to create a real community. I'm sticking with Mastadon. It's grown into something pretty stable and decent at this point.
You are not really migrating anywhere, as Mastodon is compatible with Firefish.
Why stick to the worse one, though?
The point of federation is that you can create community with people all over it, no matter what software the server they joined is running.
Mastodon being too big to the point that 90% of it users things it's the whole fediverse is not positive nor contributes to create an stable community. Many people coming from twitter run from the fediverse, because they're told there's nothing other than mastodon, which they find hard to use, lacking and extremely toxic.
Misskey, Firefish, Akkoma, GoToSocial, Microblogpub, etc give people other options that may fit their need for/usage of a microblogging platform better than mastodon does, as each (including Mastodon and each of its forks) has it's own "profile"
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Firefish just has a different ✨vibe ✨ going on, although it’s not for everyone, here’s the guide I’d use:
Twitter -> Mastodon Reddit -> Lemmy Tumblr -> Firefish YouTube -> PeerTube
They all work the same, and are (to some extent interoperable), but it’s just what layout you’re used to the most.
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HOLY SHIT... I just tried firefish.social and there's TONS of right wing anti trans lies in their trending "news."
No fucking thank you.
Ew. I'm on easymode.im and it's a lovely Firefish instance, I don't see any shit like that.
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What are you talking about? Trending isn’t even working right now… sources please.
they posted multiple anti transgender stories. obvious astroturfing. I'm out.
Isn't that a problem with specific instances/federation rather than the software itself? There are some hateful right-wing Lemmy instances too but that doesn't seem to be a problem for you as the instance you use has probably defederated from them.
they seem to have an issue moderating content.
They're also not on your instance in the first place. You're looking at the Global feed. That isn't content from Firefish.Social, that's content from elsewhere on the Fediverse. Firefish.Social admins can't moderate content on another server.
I went to firefish. I made an account. On fire fish I saw anti transgender astroturfing.
Does this mean firefish is free from all douchebaggery?
No.
I'm just saying, that's like buying a window from Lowe's, installing it in your home, and then being mad at Lowe's for having a bad view. They can't control what you see when you use the tool literally designed to look at the outside world.
With all respect, it's nothing like that.
It's literally like that. That's how the Global tab works. You're seeing off-site content. It may even be off-platform, entirely.
I think your frustration is more with the basic functionality of the Fediverse, in a more general sense, than with FireFish specifically.
That's far from a good faith interpretation of their complaint.
Maybe, but the complaint seems to be based on a misunderstanding of how federated content works. What they're describing is literally content not on the instance they're saying it's on. Their own screenshot even shows that the content in question is from a different instance than the one they're using, which to me sounds more like an issue with understanding how the Fediverse works than with Firefish.Social's moderation ability.
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1- Never join the official instances. They always are too big that are almost impossible to moderate.
2- In which timeline did you see those comments? Because if it was global, it's possible these are unknown servers the admins aren't aware of. (The trending section is global)
I mean, to be fair, the person you replied to is using Kbin rather than Lemmy - they're interacting with a Lemmy community though.
Just to be clear, which firefish server did you join?
I just checked out the main server (firefish.social) and there wasn't any transphobic content in the "Global" or "Local" section.
I'm wondering if you ended up on a really toxic right-wing fediverse instance, that happens to use Firefish as its software, and so the Firefish main site stupidly/ignorantly listed it as a possible place to sign up. If that's the case they need to get rid of it.
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There is a variety of instances for Firefish, such as kitty.social. One weird thing I notices is that the Firefish logo is not consistent across all instances. ThatOneCalculator, creator of Firefish, was recently involved in some drama, so some instance owners put an alternative logo instead.
I quickly looked through the #news tag, not seeing this. I guess those bots were active at the time?
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To the uninitiated, Firefish is to Mastodon what Kbin is to Lemmy
I have a friend who is even less initiated than that. Can you explain for his sake what that means?
Firefish and Mastodon are both microblogging platforms (like Twitter) on the fediverse. Kbin and Lemmy are both forum style platforms (like Reddit).
Where Lemmy and Mastodon are for people who prefer a more basic just the necessities experience, kbin and Firefish provide a more stylish experience with more options and customization.
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Cool things on Firefish/clackey, that Mastodon and most of it forks don't have:
• Quote notes (Misskey and Akkoma, a fork of Pleroma, also have them)
• Antennas. They allow you to add words, tags and accounts to lists and create parallel timelines that you can see whenever you want, without having to follow this accounts
• You can create personalized timelines for certain accounts to appear in.
• It has a drive section where you can upload files.
• Channels. This are public local group that the members of a server can create, join and interact within.
• Private chat groups. Local only.
• Emoji reactions
• Clips. These are collections of notes ("note" is the name post receive in Misskey and Firefish)
You can create multiple clips and manage them by giving a name and description to each. You can also choose to make your clips public to make them available to other users.
• You can create custom web pages. For now they don't federate.
• Customisable (by admin) character limit.
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I wasn't a fan last time I tried it out. I'm glad they changed the name though. Calckey sounded more like an excel alternative.
I'll have to check it out again at some point though.
I just tried it out and the UI and additional functionality is a massive upgrade over the current stock Mastodon experience. And it federates seamlessly with Mastodon accounts. The Antenna feature is something that I've been looking for in Mastodon since day one. The fediverse rules. Use it if you like it!
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Firefish is a Fediverse-compatible social networking software forked from Misskey
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I like Firefish, I am on a Firefish instance myself, and I feel really good about it. It's fun to use and it federates with Mastodon most of the time, and with Misskey some of the time. Unfortunately, microblogging on the fediverse is not as straightforward as forums on the fediverse, as they're a lot more fragmented and there are 5 or 6 different platforms instead of 2 like we have here.
Like every open source platform there are so many alternatives. Like all the open source Linux distributions and all the open source messaging apps. The social media space now has lemmy, kbin, mastodon, now firefish. So many places, Firefish doesn't appear to be federated yet, hopefully they will soon, users now will have too many options to choose from. This brings me back to when I picked my first linux distro, I had Fedora, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, PopOS, Arch, Manjaro, and hundreds more. It's a bit overwhelming, I'll be following the development and hope everything goes well.
Firefish has federation support. You can even see the platform the posts come from in the top right corner of each post.
Related: https://beehaw.org/post/6853561
mastodon.art has decided to suspend firefish.social from their instance due to issues with its administrator
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ok but how about you tell me why to move from mastodon to firefish?
It has the better feature set and UX. Some things I like:
- Threaded comment replies (though they display differently from Lemmy's).
- Antennae for discoverability.
- Can use hashtags AND keywords.
- Can filter results by instance.
- Can create multiple timelines to display content in.
- Customizable UI via widgets.
- I think the theming options are better.
- Full-text search.
- Quote posts.
- Cat mode.
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What about mobile apps? I’m on mastodon, but I basically never see the mastodon UI as I stick with Ivory (as I’m a former Tweetbot User on some ancient Microblogging Plattform which has transformed to something… else).
I don’t want to use some „nice looking“ Webpages which are optimized for mobile screens. I want dedicated Apps, as they offer mostly the much better experience.
I think the recent run of developing high class Mastodon Apps earlier this year (as the mentioned ancient Plattform kicked them out) gave mastodon an enormous boost.
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this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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