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Calckey rebrands to Firefish
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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So what actually is calckey/firefish? Is it just trying to be Twitter? Is it meaningfully different to Mastodon?
It's Mastodon with a better featureset and UX. Forked from the well-established Fediverse platform MissKey. Some things I like:
Could you elaborate on this? lol
Your avatar gets cat ears (more like extra triangles like cat ears on your avatar)
Well that's pretty fun. Thanks for sharing.
Antennae are such a neat feature that I have yet to play around with.
Imo more people would use them if they were called something clearer. Saved search. Custom timeline or feed. Something like that. But yeah they are awesome
Firefish née Calckey is a microblogging platform like Mastodon, but that's about all it has in common. Firefish has extra features like emoji reactions (like Facebook's, but you can use any emoji, including custom emoji), quote posts, and better support for deep threads (it displays replies in a tree view like Lemmy or Kbin, unlike Mastodon which tries to linearize them and makes them a confusing mess). it also supports text formatting like bold, italics, headings, custom link text, and even animations (don't worry, they don't autoplay). it's even themable, and supports migrating posts from other accounts so you don't have to start over!