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SpringMango7379@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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- ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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  - lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    quoting posts unlike Mastodon
    
    what happens when a Firefish user quotes a post and it federates to Mastodon? Is the quote lost?
    
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    ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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