[-] FelipeFelop@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

When I had Android, I regularly used phones past the point that they got security updates. Even a supposedly premium phone was hobbled by carriers/networks not releasing updates and cheaper phones didn’t have them for long.

Since moving to iPhone (where the 6S is still getting security updates ) I haven’t had a phone long enough for the updates to stop.

[-] FelipeFelop@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

The madness continues: the list of servers now shows calckey.social instead of firefish.social. When you click the button to chose it, you’re then invited to sign up to firefish.social. But as soon as you tap it there’s a message that signups are disabled.

You couldn’t make this up.

[-] FelipeFelop@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I agree, the instances marked General are not really. I think you might also be correct about waiting a week. The lead developer seems to be fighting some other battles on Mastodon at the moment.

[-] FelipeFelop@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed, thought I’d try again after a couple of days. Now getting 502 Bad Gateway errors from the joinfirefish site.

Also, some very strange reposting by firefish on mastodon. (possibly meant to do it from a personal account?) Some sort of unseemly personal argument between two people connected with the project that seem to have mental health issues.

[-] FelipeFelop@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

That doesn’t make much sense. If firefish want iOS users then they are going to have to make it work on Safari

[-] FelipeFelop@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

If you don’t mind about the local timeline, or that the main language is different or that other users might get it defederated then your approach will work.

[-] FelipeFelop@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are marked as general but when you click or tap through it’s obvious most of them aren’t

Edit: Also, I thought this was a domain change not migrating the users. If they really are migrating users then that would explain why it’s taking so long. But why show the server as verified and available during the process.

I think someone not used to these things would see ‘Coming Soon’ and just leave it as not launched yet.

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I thought I would try out firefish/calckey but found a few issues.

I should say I am in my 50s and have been around since I used 1970s BBS so have a reasonable understanding of the Fediverse etc.

But, joinfirefish.org seems to have gone for style over substance. It also doesn’t render properly on Safari (iOS)

Choosing a server to join seems unnecessarily difficult. At the top of the list is firefish.social marked as verified but when you click or tap to find out more you are presented with a coming soon page (not seen one of those since the 90s when everything was Under Construction).

The choice of servers seems limited with a need for more general servers.

It looks like I’m going to need to host my own. But a quick glance seems their’s poor documentation.

What do people think? Can anyone recommend a good general server in English?

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Ahead of the merger with Showtime Paramount+ has cancelled more shows. The most surprising of which is Star Trek:Prodigy

The animated coproduction with Nickelodeon was very well received and had been renewed for a second season. The second season is in post production and will be sold to another streamer/broadcaster.

My view is that cancelling already renewed content is a sure fire way to lose subscribers.

[-] FelipeFelop@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I thought it was superb and I think it’s invented (or at least shown it can be done) the gripping science fiction courtroom drama.

FelipeFelop

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