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?
Calckey is now Firefish
Submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@sh.itjust.works to fediverse@lemmy.world
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SpringMango7379@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
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.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year 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 1 year ago
Link to the updated platform website: joinfirefish.org
simple@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Great. I always wondered why they decided on calckey, it always just sounded like a third-rate calculator found on Google Play.