I created a Sharkey instance... (sharkey.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Next to Mastodon.world and Lemmy.world I am also running Calckey.world. This was running Calckey, a Misskey fork. That was re-branded to FireFish (that's the danger of running sites with the software name in the URL... :-) ).

Unfortunately due to circumstances the FireFish software will no longer be maintained. Therefore I was looking for another Misskey fork that could replace it, and I found Sharkey. This looks really nice.

So being who I am, I registered https://sharkey.world and installed it. It still needs some configuring and branding, but it works and you can use it! (As you will see it currently uses the Calckey.world branding)

I will write a brief how-to on migrating from Calckey to Sharkey and hope the calckey.world users will migrate.

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[-] 1984@lemmy.today 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What is sharkey?

Looks like Twitter clone?

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Yeah somewhere between twitter and facebook clone, more like Mastodon. But open-source and federated, like Lemmy.

[-] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Mastodon is open source and federated.

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Ahh yes I meant as opposed to Twitter and Facebook. But I worded it badly 😁

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Cool, nice with more options. :)

[+] helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not a fan of the misskey forks because most of them are very buggy and have very bloated UIs. I tried Iceshrimp and hajkey and both were terribly buggy. Sharkey was okay but still very buggy, biggest issue by far is the fact that follow attempts typically hang for long amounts of time if they even go through at all. Not sure if it's a frontend issue though or an issue with the software itself, I tried Sharkey's Mastodon API to use the Mastodon app and it seems to work okay there. I still wouldn't trust it over mastodon which is much more polished and stable.

There are some cool features in it like the cat ears, the gallery, and very robust theming elements, but ultimately stability and usability come first for social platforms I'm going to use seriously

[-] sproid@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

follow hashtags

its the function called Antennas.

[-] A_A@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Which one as the best potential :
(between Lemmy, Mastodon or Sharkey)
1-for users,
2-for moderators,
3-for administrators,
4-for developers ?

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

For moderators surely Mastodon. For admins too.. For users: that's a taste-thing. I'm not a developer so can't say...

[-] sproid@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

The question doesn't make sense. They are projects with different purposes. and what kind of potential you are asking? popularity, ease of use, mass market, etc?