Retronautickz

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.

But I feel like if I try to clarify and really understand I may end up offending someone

Who would you be offending by admitting you were wrong in thinking OP was wrongly moderated?

OP knew what they were doing. They got rightfully suspended for transphobia and now they are crying about overzealous moderation and censorship, like all the bigots do.

Not only did they used an slur, but OP’s “joke” is based around a transmisogynistic stereotype.

Next time you want to post about someone being “wrongly moderated”, ask people from the community affected if they feel the comment was truly offensive or not, and if it deserves any kind of moderation.

It’s a slur, not only a term that “has fallen out of favour”

OP was rightfully moderated. Their comment was transphobic.

I’ve had a Mastodon account since 2018, but I officially moved from twitter last year. I also have a firefish/calckey account and and akkoma one.

I prefer Firefish. Its features allow me to use it as a mix of twitter and tumblr. For something extrictly twitter-like, I’ll go for Akkoma as I find Mastodon to be lacking some important characteristics and its minimalistic design to be uninviting.

The thing is, the fediverse doesn’t need to be mainstream.

I don’t know how I feel about the new name, but I’m curious to see what new features come with the rebranding.

Calckey/Firefish is by far my favourite microblogging platform. It has a greater number of features than mastodon, and I personally find it more inviting.

What I wanna know is, with it being its own thing now (rather than a fork of misskey), while it still be supported by Misskey apps, like MilkTea?

I think Calckey/firefish, because of it history and characteristics, tends to have more themed instances. Many of the so called “general” instances, are multi-topic or multi-fandom themed instances rather than actual general purpose ones.

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

It’s probably not launched yet. The main instance hasn’t open (or rather moved from calckey) and other intances are moving from either old Calckey or foundkey.

Firefish has already set up a new site and infrastructure under their new name. The flagship instance of Calckey.social is in the process of moving over to Firefish.social. The migration effort is intended to retain users, posts, credentials, and data. The move is expected to officially happen over the course of the next few days.

I would say to wait at least a week to check the official instance.

For what I understand Meta only reached Mastodon/Misskey/Pleroma and PixelFed instance admins. There hasn’t been mention of they even reaching Friendica/socialhome/hubzilla admins. So I doubt they even care contacting admins from “non-competing” software based servers

Also, I don’t think the NDA stops admins from disclosing they were contacted by Meta. It only stops them to talk about what’s been discussed on these reunions, because several tech bros at mastodon where prouly announcing they were “invited by Meta to a talk about the future of the Fediverse” and how they accepted. So the admins of Lemmy World deciding not to confirm or deny doesn’t necessarily prove they signed anything.

Recommending profiles to follow is already part of the onboarding process, and is not in any way equivalent to “pushing profiles for you to see”.

So, if its already possible. What would your freemium features add?

There is no “TOS” for the fediverse software.

Each software has, in fact, its rules/terms. Peertube, for example, is explicitly non-profit.

Look, I really tried to keep an open mind about this conversation, but now you are distorting the truth and I can’t tell if it’s for ignorance or dishonesty. I think it’s time to end it. Have a nice one.

To me what you are doing trying to monetise something that is completely free of charge, while pretending you are doing it to promote the fediverse, “making it mainstream” (the last thing the hardcore fedizens want), IS dishonest. So I guess we are even.

You do know you can’t make money out of any fediverse software, don’t you? You can make money on the fediverse, like artists and professionals do, but you can’t make money out of it.

From mastodon main page:

We respect your agency. Your feed is curated and created by you. We will never serve ads or push profiles for you to see.

This goes in contradiction with an option on one of your polls:

Better recommendations on who to follow

Other than accounts that suggest you people to follow on the fediverse, there’s no algorithm that recommends you accounts to follow or content to see. In fact, this very thing would go against the TOS of Mastodon, Peertube, and other fediverse software

You could make your own software that offers those things and give users the posibility/ability to federate, but you cannot legally add premium features or recommendation algorithms to already existing fediverse software or any fork of it.

If you go take a look at my first blog post about communick, you would see that the last thing I want to have is a “Corporation” in the Fediverse, but instead I want to have it strong and attractive enough for small, independent service providers

No. What you want is to make money out of decentralised social media.

Not every business is a “corporation”. Not every professional that provides a service for money is a rent-seeker

People offering their services and talent for money already exist on the fediverse.

The fact that there are “business coming to the fediverse” does not mean that they can only operate on the same (failed) business models from Big Tech.

Funny. Because in the polls you asked a question about features someone would be interested in pay for. Some of which are characteristical of corporate social media…

your use of the “Royal We” to express a personal opinion.

You do understand that it’s an expression, don’t you?

not backing up said opinion with any type of argument, which makes it sound like you are simply stating it as a fact.

It’s a fact. Monetisation of any kind is against the mere idea of federated social media. People com here to be away from corporations, advertising and the like. The model of social media that seeks to make social networking into a business model is in crisis, why would anyone want to made the fediverse into that?

I see you have trouble with people not agreeing with you…

We definitely do not need business or premium services here.

I didn’t even know Evernote was still a think. I thought it had died years ago

Reddit had/has the same problem. It’s just that federation makes it way more obvious on the threadiverse.

Meanwhile the fediverse microblogging alternatives have either three or four timelines, none of them algorithm-driven

I know they are ActiVItyPub based. I’m talking about the diversity of platforms, not which protocol they use.

that it’s federated (which is not necessary to be a federated service).

What do you mean by this?

Those are still Matrix (platform) style servers.

You don’t have something like Mastodon vs Pixelfed vs Lemmy in terms of diversity of products.

Yes ,and no.

It depends on how you define both terms. If decentralised = federated, matrix is federated. But if federation is defined as a model of social network in which different servers based on different platforms interact through the use of the same protocol(S) (decentralisation + interoperability), being isolated, Matrix doesn’t fit the definition.

Because Matrix doesn’t accept other platforms to enter its protocol, nor plans on adding it’s commonly not considered to be truly federated