Damn shame, tbh. Out of all of them I really like the visuals and vibe of Firefish.
Yeah it looked promising. Also a shame I never got to try it properly because it didnโt work for me from the start. Home timeline never loaded and errored out and I never got any kind of support response so gave up on it. Oh well.
(Also, hi Harry in the wilds of Lemmy. ๐๐)
Yeah it had a pretty rough ride at the start but when it worked, it was really nice tbh.
Also: 
That was quick
Sounds like my ex.
Gotta make the most of it, go back for seconds, thirds...
Self-burn, those are rare
Glad I held back from suggesting Firefish for my wife. I've been slowly trying to convince her to jump to the fediverse for microblogging and figured to have her try Firefish simply because it's prettier than Mastodon. Guess it's back to ol' Mastodon.
You can suggest Akkoma to her if you want a Mastodon alternative.
Thanks! I'll check it out.
Closer to Firefish would be Iceshrimp, a fork of Firefish started when the writing started to appear on the wall.
Does anyone know if Mastodon have that "multiple frontends" thing Lemmy has?
There are some. Mastodon has a lot of garbagey nonsense, but they do at least have a proper API which will let you make a non-shit front end if you wanted.
That's not what I mean. Lemmy has two separate repositories: one for the backend, and one for the default frontend. New frontends can be written and straight-up hooked into the server's backend instead of making all those API calls. For example, see https://photon.lemmy.dbzer0.com/ vs https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/.
Well, Lemmy's front end talks to it's back end via an API, which is pretty much how every web app of any scale works these days.
There's really not any particular difference between a monolithic app vs a seperate front end in terms of "all those API calls" since everything is basically calling APIs at this point, if they're not made by complete incompetents. (In the case of Mastodon, though, I suppose complete incompetent is possible.)
Oh, I didn't realize that.
photon doesn't directly communicate with the backend, it's not intended for that. but even then, lemmy-ui is almost entirely client side (for some reason) and it makes its calls to the API
Sharkey might also be worth a look.
RIP. Was on firefish a few months but saw the writing on the wall back then and jumped ship. In retrospect, probably the 3rd or 4th federated product I've been a user of that flamed out. WATTBA
weird, ive never seen that acronym before to my knowledge, and yet still knew what it stood for. WATTBA!
For those who don't know there is https://misskey-hub.net/en/
Did the Misskey network not advise against e.g. EU people signing up because of legal reasons like GPDR? Anyway, Iceshrimp works very much as intended and has active development so that could be an alternative for some people (have no experience with Sharkey).
I think that was specifically for misskey.io because some western users were breaking some sort of law. I never quite figured out the details. Misskey.io still doesn't let any IP from outside the China-Japan-Korea circle sign up. But there are some instances, that do, and some English language instances there as well.
Also, misskey and the Japanese side of fedi, tend to tolerate "loli" content to a degree that other side doesn't. My main account is on a misskey server and I love it.
I see. BTW, I never figured out the details either, but wanted to bring matters up anyway in case it still would be considered useful.
wanted to bring matters up anyway in case it still would be considered useful.
Honestly, I think the issue is still relevant because many users coming to fedi, don't get exposed to this kind of discussion. I wasn't. I was bored with mastodon so looked around and found firefish. But my instance was shutting down. So I decided to just use the source of all the *key software, misskey and went to sign up for misskey.io but couldn't. I had to search a lot to finally figure out the situation. Later, I joined a smaller instance, instead of the flagship instance. My server admin is amazing. They run an instance that also follows US specific laws as well despite being primarily Japanese server because there are a few english users.
What I learned all of these is that, mastodon is not fedi, there are a lot of software, look around before you settle down. And instances with small number of users form a better community. So, you don't have to choose the largest instance out there.
I tried Firefish but at no point in time did it ever actually work well. 85% of the content just wouldnโt load.
It did when it was still called Calckey, but around the time of the rebranding their main server got into issues (Kainoa, the previous maintainer, was messing around with it to improve performance but that just broke things).
I am especially sad because firefish was the first fedi project that I donated to. A lot of people had problems with firefish, but the server I was on was absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, they server maintainers foresaw the demise of the software and decided to shut down early this year, on March.
Firefish users after this: ๐๐๐
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