What are Misskey and its forks (*key)? A brief overview

Misskey is Japanese microblogging software, but it's unlike other microblogging software like Mastodon that more closely mirrors the design and features of Twitter. Instead it, and thus its forks (e.g. Sharkey/Iceshrimp), have a distinct design and variety of features unique to it.

A couple of which are Antennas (custom feeds) and Pages (blogging). With its approach to custom feeds, you make a couple lists of keywords to show posts including specific terms and filter out those including other terms.

E.g. a feed looking for cute cats might have an include list of the words cats/kittens and an exclude/filter list of the terms dogs/puppies/etc.

Then there's Pages, which are relatively straightforward. Basically they're blog posts or any longer form post where you might want to play with more formatting options.

Alongside these there are several other features, like custom themes, Channels (sort of like local-only groups/threads), and more that I'm less familiar with. In any event, Misskey and its forks are rather different from some of the other microblogging stuff you may have seen before, so I encourage checking them out!

This should better help follow my last post, where I highlighted a few instances people using Lemmy might be interested in. This comment hit the nail on the head, so I made this to try to correct for that a little.

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