Submitted 10 months ago by jezebelley3d@lemmy.zip to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://catodon.social/notes/9nvp68a5a10zrdi2
Just a headsup for any server admins running Firefish, apparently it is no longer being maintained. One of the core developers of Firefish has written about the situation in the link provided.
Meanwhile the original software of which Calckey/Firefish was forked from, Misskey, continues along nicely: github.com/misskey-dev/misskey
I’d love to move to mainstream Misskey, but there’s a core reason why I’m using Firefish at the moment, namely the ability to actually import my old posts from Mastodon. To my knowledge, pretty much nothing supports importing posts in the Fediverse, except for Firefish and forks, Friendica and forks (to an extent), and PixelFed.
there’s a core reason why I’m using Firefish at the moment, namely the ability to actually import my old posts from Mastodon.
Do you know if the Misskey maintainers are actively refusing that feature or has it just never been proposed in a pull request?
I’ve tried to setup Lemmy and such but the setups for docker are usually what I’d call lackluster…
blahaj.zone moved to ice-shrimp too but honestly calckey/firefish (HATE the name) always left a bad taste in my mouth.
i’ve always loved misskey above all else.
We partly moved to ice shrimp, but it was quite divergent from Hajkey, and after being burnt by our Calckey experience, we lost a lot of momentum and energy, so it’s sort of sat there in a mostly working state, not ice shrimp and not Hajkey for a while now.
Once we’re both back from South America though, we’ll do a migration to Sharkey (a direct soft fork of Misskey). After that, Kaity will look at gradually adding our Hajkey specific features directly in to Sharkey where possibly.
ice shrimp, Hajkey, Calckey, Sharkey
Wait, what? How is anybody supposed to keep up with so many forks? Why does everyone and their mom rather make their own fork than to work together? What’s even the problem with Misskey to begin with?
ooh yess thank you i didn’t mean to imply i was in charge or anything i was just reading from the announcement :3
Damn, that repository and its forks really know how to crash and burn. I’m glad to see it’s being given more life with another fork. That said, with a name like Catodon, I can pretty much guarantee it won’t be a resounding success 🥺
Long live IceShrimp!
The power of opensource.
…is that it can be picked up and continued by anyone rather than lost forever, right?
I’d rather go back to the 90s! The good old times, when devs can lose all that commercial software source code they are developing when the hard drive crashes! And there were no backups! Sorry people who bought licenses! 😂
Narrator: this happened more than once.
No, we prefer the proprietary ones so that a rival can buy out their competition, end their products, and force everyone to migrate to their worse version of the software you were happy with!
Was on it for a few months but jumped ship after bugs went unfixed. Can’t fault the owner personally. It’s a stressful, thankless job. Hope he finds happiness in 2024
Oh wow. And I was suggesting Firefish to my wife to get her off twitter because it looked “fancier” than Mastodon. Glad she hasn’t switched over yet, and I’ll probably just get her on Mastodon instead. I wish catodon success though, and I hope it’s a better replacement for Firefish.
Mastodon is like the boring solid mainstay that will always be there and keep the fediverse alive. There are tons of other fedi projects that are more exciting, but they burst into flames way too often for my taste lol
There’s Sharkey, which is also a fork of Misskey like Firefish
@postwatchbot@lemy.lol
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 10 months ago
this seems to be a trend playing out.
i hope instances can come up with a more standardized methods of control that dont leave all the keys in a single humans hands. we know how unstable humans are.
Carighan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah like we could have a shared legal entity, say a corporation, controlling the servers 🤔 And they could instead of a single decisionmaker have a board. 🤔
Jokes aside, wouldn’t this go against the federated idea? anyone can go and roll their own instance. Or take it down. Control is in the user’s (of the software, that is, the instance owners) hands!
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 10 months ago
i did seem to conflate the software with the instance... but then, so do a lot of developers it seems.
its not that hard to have a small group of people instead of a single human manage a project. mbin is a community fork of kbin for these reasons.
veniasilente@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You mispelt coöperative.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
Even at its smallest form, a federated instance hosting a community likely needs more than one person acting as admin and mod. It may not be a for profit corporation, but there needs to be some kind of collective organization.