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2023-05-05 21:19:55

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

Today is the day I talk about what #Calckey is and what it does. ?

In this thread, I will explore what I believe to be the most important features of Calckey.

SPOILER ALERT: While Calckey focuses on microblogging, that's where its similarities with #Mastodon (and #Twitter) end.

@fediversenews

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2023-05-05 21:25:14

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

Let's first take a look at what Calckey looks like in desktop mode.

As you can see, it's got a very media-rich presentation of a feed.

But there's also more!

On the right pane are some widgets. You can customize which widgets you see there. I opted to see trending hashtags and recent notifications.

On the right pane is the navbar. I'll get into that in a bit.

At the top are different feeds including home, local, social, recommended, global, lists, and antennaes.

2023-05-05 21:31:44

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

Here's a look at Calckey in mobile mode.

The top displays different feeds.

The bottom has a navbar with a hamburger menu, home, notifications, chat, and widgets.

This can be installed as a progressive web app to your phone by "adding to Home screeen" when you visit a Calckey site.

2023-05-05 21:34:07

Nick's world

gocu54@tweesecake.social

@atomicpoet I prefer cheeseburger menus over hamburger menus.

2023-05-05 21:35:55

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

So far, so good. You see #Calckey's timeline for microblogging.

Let's now look at notifications.

Notifications can be displayed for

* All
* Unread
* Mentions
* Direct mentions

You can also filter your notifications by:

* New followers
* Boosts
* Quotes
* Reactions
* And many more!

Here's a screenshot what the notification nav bar looks like in mobile mode.

2023-05-05 21:38:45

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

The next prominent feature of #Calckey is chat.

Now I can't show you this exactly because that's private ?

However, what's important to know is that this is distinct from Mastodon DMs, it's isolated from the main feed, and there's no mistaking chats for status updates.

This looks like a chat app.

2023-05-05 21:38:56

Benjamin

BenjaminNelan@mastodon.social

@atomicpoet The "how much of the day you've wasted on here" counter is a bold move that I wasn't expecting. Additionally the year percentage must be wrong since there's no way it's.. oh geezus it's May already.

2023-05-05 21:42:46

Benjamin

BenjaminNelan@mastodon.social

A chat from 'Calckey' where I'm talking to myself making stupid jokes that aren't even funny. The point is the interface looks nice.

@atomicpoet (Looks pretty good)

2023-05-05 21:43:04

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

Yet another killer aspect of #Calckey is the Explore section. This is for content discovery -- finding people ("Users") to follow and posts that are gaining traction ("Featured").

Let's focused on the Users aspect of Explore. It helps you find users according to:

* Pinned (a.k.a., recommended)
* Popular
* Recently Active
* Newly Joined Users

There's all sorts of people to follow through the Explore section of Calckey

2023-05-05 21:45:46

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

The "Featured" portion of Explore shows the most popular posts divided into two options:

* Local: what's popular on your local #Calckey server
* Remote: what's popular across the Fediverse

This is excellent for finding stuff that already has lots of conversation so you can join in.

2023-05-05 21:48:47

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

In this post, you may have noticed lots of emoji reactions. Interestingly, some of these emojis are animated too.

To many people, this is the most compelling reason to use Calckey as this is a feature that's unsupported by Mastodon or Twitter.

2023-05-05 21:51:45

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

Like Twitter and Mastodon, #Calckey supports bookmarks. These are a private means to save posts to review at a later date.

Bookmarks arre easily accessible through the navbar.

2023-05-05 21:56:21

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

If you like Facebook Groups, #Calckey has something similar. They are called "Channels".

Currently, they are localized to each Calckey server, but there are plans to federate them across the Fediverse.

Posts to channels can be broadcast across the Fediverse.

This is one big difference between Calckey and Mastodon.

Here's a "Music Recommendations" channel on https://calckey.social.

2023-05-05 21:59:56

Bruno Felix

bruno@venera.social

This looks simply amazing! Is it live, can anyone use this platform/web app?

2023-05-05 22:03:18

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

Let's now talk about search on #Calckey.

To be bluntly honest, Fediverse search needs a lot of work. I don't think one server software nails it yet.

However, unlike Mastodon, Calckey allows you to search across the Fediverse without need of hashtags (or for you to have interacted with the post previously).

This makes search a lot more extensible than on Mastodon.

Click this link to see it in action:

https://calckey.social/search?q=notifications

Also see screenshot.

2023-05-05 22:03:51

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

@bruno Yes, you can sign up for Calckey at https://calckey.social

2023-05-05 22:05:09

spla :senyera: :fed: :vim:

spla@mastodont.cat

@atomicpoet big problem of Calckey, repeating/flooding the timeline every time with the very same note because someone is interacting with it. Very annoying.

2023-05-05 22:07:14

Trenton Matthews

queenslight@pone.social

@atomicpoet They’re also on #Misskey too.

Hmmm, so that’s why they are called channels. Interesting!

2023-05-05 22:10:04

⥫ Lee ⥭

leewalton@mastodonapp.uk

@atomicpoet How's it do that? ElasticSearch on the full content? Or some other technique?

2023-05-05 22:12:04

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

This is another massive difference between #Calckey and Mastodon.

Calckey has a Drive!

That's right, a cloud storage feature! You can store whatever you want there: photos, music, documents, Zip files, etc.

Who needs Dropbox or Onedrive when you have Calckey?

As you can see in this screenshot, I'm storing diverse media.

2023-05-05 22:18:46

LabSpokane

LabSpokane@mas.to

@atomicpoet @fediversenews

What is the compelling reason to have *both* Calkey and Mastodon?

2023-05-05 22:20:09

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

Pages! That's another big difference between #Calckey and Mastodon.

That's right, anyone can make a webpage using Calckey. This page does formats text, embeds images, and allows you to express yourself as you choose.

Here's an example of a Calckey page made by @youronlyone:

https://calckey.social/@youronlyone/pages/calckey-faq

Also see screenshot.

2023-05-05 22:20:58

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

@LabSpokane Mastodon seems like it's for very serious discussion, and Calckey seems more fun.

2023-05-05 22:22:17

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Trenton Matthews @Chris Trottier It can be a bit confusing, for it basically refers to the same as (discussion) groups or forums on other projects.

And "channel" has a wholly different meaning on Hubzilla and (streams).

2023-05-05 22:27:02

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

Galleries is another key #Calckey feature.

Calckey allows you to add, curate, and write a description of user-made collection of images.

Here's an example of one person's gallery:

https://calckey.social/gallery/9e32jx7lu9

See screenshot of this gallery.

2023-05-05 22:28:18

Arindam Basu

arinbasu@calckey.social

@atomicpoet@mastodon.social @LabSpokane@mas.to
I think this is where Calckey is winning because it has that "easy", "fun" appearance while allowing an incredible possibilities of what can be posted from complex codes to dynamic visualisations ...

2023-05-05 22:30:02

Mlep

Mlep@retro.pizza

@atomicpoet Thanks for posting all this -- super helpful to get to see what all other fediverse apps can do.

2023-05-05 22:32:53

ACAB for Cutie

HannibalElector@calckey.social

@atomicpoet@mastodon.social @LabSpokane@mas.to agreed! It's more casual and it isn't as tech dominated.

2023-05-05 22:33:04

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

There's lots of other features that #Calckey has:

* Antennas
* Clips
* Comment trees
* Misskey Flavoured Markdown (MFM)
* Local-only posting
* Deck layout

Really, there's too much to list -- and if I tried, I'd be here all day.

But really, the only way to understand #Calckey is to give it a shot.

If Calckey intrigues you, go ahead and try it yourself.

2023-05-05 22:34:37

Jer Warren

nyquildotorg@mastodon.social

@atomicpoet I would love to hear what Antennas and Clips are. I made a calckey.social account a week or so ago and was surprised to see stuff that didn't tell you what it does. Felt a bit like logging into the AWS dashboard and seeing stuff like "Route 53" instead of "DNS."

2023-05-05 22:36:49

AlderForrest ?? ???????‍☠️

AlderForrest@calckey.social

@atomicpoet@mastodon.social

Interesting! This feature will be going to be in my repertoire in some project of mine.

@youronlyone@calckey.social

2023-05-05 22:36:54

LabSpokane

LabSpokane@mas.to

@atomicpoet

Honestly, this kind of strange distinction is what will push me over the edge to simply delete social media from my life. It’s bad enough already. We have …

Facebook: for fighting with relatives
Nextdoor: when I want to report a person of color in the neighborhood
Twitter: for when I want to fascist
LinkedIn: for vacuous corporate shitposting
Instagram: vacation posts only
TikTok: hot political takes only

Mastodon: serious tooting
Calkey: tooting with fun gifs

I can’t keep up.

2023-05-05 22:37:54

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

@LabSpokane You might want to look at the rest of the thread to see what #Calckey does. I talk about the many features that make it distinct from Mastodon.

2023-05-05 22:38:57

luckysitsinback

luckysitsinback@mstdn.social

@atomicpoet
got in bc of your notice earlier.
it's a blast, so far. thanks !

2023-05-05 22:41:08

LabSpokane

LabSpokane@mas.to

@atomicpoet

Chris,

I really did. And it’s a laudable effort, but I wish all this effort went into making one, good thing work instead of the continual bifurcation into different platforms.

2023-05-05 22:43:18

AI6YR Ben

ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

@LabSpokane @atomicpoet Isn't Calckey ActivityPub too? Doesn't really matter as long as it supports ActivityPub.

2023-05-05 22:52:02

ACAB for Cutie

HannibalElector@calckey.social

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @LabSpokane@mas.to @atomicpoet@mastodon.social it is
I interact with my Mastodon follows too

2023-05-05 22:52:10

LabSpokane

LabSpokane@mas.to

@ai6yr @atomicpoet

I know this sounds lazy, but all I (and most) people want to do is easily find and communicate with likeminded folks and share stuff. Every time something new comes along in the fediverse, it feels like a long, drawn-out research project to figure what the hell it is, if it has traction, how and if one would want to migrate, etc etc etc. Most people find this exhausting and lose interest. It really feels like nothing is going to stabilize and mature, but bifurcate more.

2023-05-05 22:56:37

m@thias.hellqui.st :verified-skull:

m@thias.hellqui.st

@LabSpokane

Ah. It sounds like you assume Eugene/Mastodon haven't heard these suggestions previously and would welcome them if only they were put forward. That is not the reality of things. Even Mastodon needs Calckey (and Pleroma, Akkoma, Friendica etc) to keep them on their toes and stay sharp. I promise you the new/coming additions to Mastodon wouldn't have happened if the rest of the Fediverse hadn't already proven it could be done, in a good way. So we all benefit.

@atomicpoet

2023-05-05 22:58:37

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

@nyquildotorg No question, there's a lot of documentation that still needs to happen with Calckey.

2023-05-05 23:00:02

Christopher

kichae@kitchenparty.online

@nyquildotorg@mastodon.social
Antennas are keyword alerts, basically. Like subscribing to hashtags in Mastodon, only for any old word you want.

I've been using Calckey for like 5 months now, and I still don't know what a clip is...
@atomicpoet@mastodon.social

2023-05-05 23:01:07

Shoq

shoq@mastodon.social

@atomicpoet @nyquildotorg Any experienced writers who would like to volunteer for the Calckey documentation team, that project is about to get better organized. We could use use. Please DM Chris or me.

2023-05-05 23:04:57

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

@LabSpokane @ai6yr Actually, #Calckey is a fork of #Misskey, which predates Mastodon by two years.

The *key apps, as they are known, are the 2nd largest platform on the Fediverse.

And no, there isn't "one good thing" on the Fediverse -- there are many. That's the point of the Fediverse. Mastodon is but one portion of this.

If Mastodon works for you, great. But some people would prefer a different UI, or to have different features, or to interact with a different culture.

2023-05-05 23:07:35

Kainoa

kainoa@calckey.social

@kichae@kitchenparty.online @nyquildotorg@mastodon.social @atomicpoet@mastodon.social Clips are for collecting multiple posts! Like if you see 5 posts about a specific topic you want to save for later, you can put them into a clip instead of clogging up your regular bookmarks. Clips can also be shared with other people!

2023-05-05 23:11:20

Brett Elliff

gatewayy@mastodon.gatewayy.net

@atomicpoet
I have made a test account on #Calckey and it is pretty fun and interesting. I do with @ivory would let me use it along with my #Mastodon instance without crashing. Maybe someday soon!

@fediversenews

2023-05-05 23:12:15

MisterArix

MisterArix@akkoma.thesandbox.net

@LabSpokane @ai6yr @atomicpoet As the leading Fediverse platform, it is up to Mastodon to drive user growth. The other platforms are not large enough nor have the resources to grow their respective user bases the way Mastodon has.

Mastodon literally the elephant of the Fediverse. The rest of us are just the birds sitting on its back.

2023-05-05 23:18:08

Jer Warren

nyquildotorg@mastodon.social

@kainoa @atomicpoet @kichae Oh, cool. Sort of like the old Twitter Moments then. Thank you for explaining!

2023-05-05 23:18:31

Bigou

Bigou@framapiaf.org

@MisterArix @ai6yr @LabSpokane @atomicpoet In #Japan, #Misskey is far more popular than #Mastodon.

2023-05-05 23:20:48

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

@Bigou @MisterArix @ai6yr @LabSpokane Exactly! People are really looking at the Fediverse with Western eyes and aren't considering the fact that in Japan, #Misskey is many peoples' first exposure to the Fediverse.

#Calckey is building on what Misskey has already made.

2023-05-05 23:26:32

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

@MisterArix @ai6yr @LabSpokane Further, I don't think it's wrong for other projects to exist -- especially since so many of them predate Mastodon.

#Misskey, which is what #Calckey is based off, predates Mastodon by two years!

Friendica started in 2010.

GNU Social is even older.

And people forget that Mastodon itself is a fork!

It's wild to me that so many folks believe Mastodon = Fediverse.

2023-05-05 23:28:11

AI6YR Ben

ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

@LabSpokane @atomicpoet Well, it's kind of like an email program. Find one you like... That's the beauty of a (truly) protocol driven service. I never went running to the "latest and greatest" email client, and you don't have to feel like you have to, either... it's just a different interface to the same world.

2023-05-05 23:28:51

LWFlouisa

LWFlouisa@cyberplace.social

@atomicpoet You have my attention with webpage and cloud storage.

It's always been weird to me not having a cloud storage option, although NextCloud is decent.

I've recently had issues with websites that are fans of the twitter ceo guy, kicking me as I endorse the fediverse.

Though it hasn't happened on NextCloud.

2023-05-05 23:34:42

Indieterminacy

indieterminacy@social.coop

@LabSpokane @ai6yr @atomicpoet You should see the shit they invented in the Industrial Revolution - we only really think of the successes, not the litany of obscure failures.

Relax, the world doesnt need every perfect solution to arrive the next day.
Lets be a little creative and then see what happens :)

2023-05-05 23:34:58

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Chris Trottier @Jer Warren #CalcKey is getting more and more similar to #Hubzilla, down to the documentation that leaves a lot to be desired. Seriously, Hubzilla has stuff mentioned in the user manual that has been removed years ago.

Only that Hubzilla has even more features, a much worse GUI (improvement is being worked on) and no working mobile app whatsoever because Nomad has been dead for so long that it doesn't even work with today's Hubzilla anymore.

2023-05-05 23:37:20

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

@jupiter_rowland @nyquildotorg You're right about that. When I've come to #Calckey, I realize that there's so much that need explaining.

#Misskey Hub has some documentation, and that helps. But now that #Calckey has diverged, it needs to do the same.

https://misskey-hub.net/en/

2023-05-05 23:39:35

william.maggos

wjmaggos@liberal.city

@atomicpoet @MisterArix @ai6yr @LabSpokane

I'm trying to envision what this future looks like. Calckey seems like an attempt to give people everything they want in an online space, while Mastodon is very much of a Twitter experience. I think Calckey is more the model most people will want. But then some instances should be designed around the work of journalism or video or podcasting. I think many apps will only tie into a part of the capabilities of the server we are on.

2023-05-05 23:39:39

Bam

Bam@sfba.social

@atomicpoet @MisterArix @ai6yr @LabSpokane @shoq Or we didn’t know at all. What is Mastodon a fork of?

2023-05-06 00:01:05

Phil Sherry

philsherry@home.social

@atomicpoet What has the access needs user research and accessibility testing been like for all of this?

2023-05-06 00:03:46

LWFlouisa

LWFlouisa@cyberplace.social

@atomicpoet For now is that the main instance?

2023-05-06 00:18:49

The Mad Codger :pdx_badge:

themadcodger@pdx.social

@LWFlouisa @atomicpoet
That's the biggest one at the moment, like mastodon.social. There are other smaller ones though https://calckey.org/join/

2023-05-06 00:20:31

LWFlouisa

LWFlouisa@cyberplace.social

@themadcodger @atomicpoet Just found one for robots, it was difficult to decide between the robots competition and the cloud server place.

I do chatbots, but I'm knowhere near ready to do robots yet.

2023-05-06 00:20:56

Rufus J. Cooter

RufusJCooter@mstdn.social

@shoq @atomicpoet @nyquildotorg Indeed - I've been playing around on it a bunch more lately, and liking it a lot - the biggest complaint that I have now is that everything I've figured out how to do there has been trial/error

I'd offer to help w/ documentation, but for the facts that I 1) don't know what I'm doing, and 2) don't know how to write good

2023-05-06 00:21:21

Cătă

petrescatraian@libranet.de

@Dennis Nunes :verified: @Chris Trottier Guess Mastodon needs an update for this. Just like a previous beta update brought the ability to see custom formatting. Friendica is already looking into this feature but they couldn't implement it properly so far.

2023-05-06 00:46:35

Paul Schoe

paulschoe@mastodon.world

Your long thread about #Calckey is very worthwhile. Interesting to see the myriad of functions in Calckey.

Nvrthlss, I expect that Mastodon also comes with essential functions such as quotes, thread layout, chat.

However, I'll stay on Mastodon mainly because of people who are NOT yet on Fediverse.

When in my contact details they see @mastodon.world, they have an idea where they can find me. When they would see @calckey, I expect they have no clue what that means.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews

2023-05-06 01:39:01

slyborg

slyborg@vmst.io

@atomicpoet @fediversenews So this looks exactly like a Misskey fork, what’s the special sauce? As far as I remember from the one instance I was on, Misskey does all of these things out of the box.

2023-05-06 01:43:13

Chris Trottier

atomicpoet@mastodon.social

@slyborg @fediversenews There’s quite a few differences, including UI. The biggest difference for me, however, is that migration from Mastodon is possible, and there’s a compatibility layer with Mastodon’s API being built.

Post edits are being tested right now too.

2023-05-06 01:54:01

Blake Leonard

BlakeL@calckey.social

@slyborg@vmst.io @atomicpoet@mastodon.social @fediversenews@venera.social It's also more optimized for the English language iirc, as opposed to the language defaulting to Japanese in many places. Great for people who don't understand Japanese but do understand English.

2023-05-06 02:55:45

Ella

eraitch@aus.social

@atomicpoet @fediversenews Thanks for this. Played with calckey the other day and enjoyed it but was a bit overwhelmed. This has given me a bit more info to digest

2023-05-06 04:18:50

mazzeri

mazzeri@mastodon.online

@atomicpoet @youronlyone This isn’t promoted enough. It allows personalization we haven’t seen since Geocities and Myspace.

2023-05-06 07:38:12

crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts

crossgolf_rebel@moppels.bar

@caos@anonsys.net da scheint sich noch jemand reinzuhängen ?

@atomicpoet@mastodon.social @fediversenews@venera.social

2023-05-06 08:56:34

aRubes

aRubes@sloth.run

@atomicpoet@mastodon.social @fediversenews@venera.social excellent. May I just add a few things that were important for me ?
• Already has a nice tree view
• Mute has another great variant: Mute only the boosts !
• Instance cloud & in-post display of the software on the other end
~ Does not render bidi text correctly, yet ?

2023-05-06 09:04:41

Thomas

coastgnu@norden.social

@atomicpoet

Please, please, show examples how to use #antennas !

IMO this is the least documented feature of calckey.

#calckey

2023-05-06 10:36:17

Kevin Davidson

MetalSamurai@mas.to

@LabSpokane @atomicpoet This sounds very “Any colour you like, as long as it’s black”. With cars there’s a wide choice of different manufacturers, with different designs of vehicles that all share the same road. Some suit particular use cases, and others are better for different people. They all share the same roads.
The exact same thing with different ActivityPub servers and clients. You can pick the combination that works best for you, but we all share the same network.

2023-05-06 10:50:23

Мя :sparkles_lesbian: ��

mo@mastodon.ml

@atomicpoet everyone talking about cool features, but doesn't mention all misskey-based software curse:

Horribly slow, over-bloated front-end

It even has fucking scripting language. Implemented in fucking JavaScript.

It takes THREE spinners to show a post. And even more layout shifts. Maybe for someone who are used to twitter this is usual, but this is not okay

2023-05-06 11:05:38

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Kevin Davidson @LabSpokane @Chris Trottier It's the very same thing as people demanding the #Linux ecosystem be reduced to ONE distribution with no variants, ONE graphics toolkit, ONE display manager with ONE desktop environment. Because Linux is "too complicated" otherwise. Because it makes people choose where Windows and Mac users don't even have a choice.

But this would leave many dissatisfied because that unified Linux will not cater to their individual tastes. If it sucks, Linux sucks altogether.

Of course, in the #Fediverse case, the one unified project which the Fediverse must be reduced to is always #Mastodon. Preferably always with the same set of features. No other projects, not even forks.

First of all, this would mean that the Fediverse would lose a great deal of its features. Mastodon can't do podcasts; #Funkwhale and #Castopod can. Mastodon can't do blogs; #WriteFreely and #Plume can. Mastodon can't do YouTube; #PeerTube can. Not to mention the many things that #Hubzilla can do that Mastodon can't.

Now, someone could suggest to cram all features of all these projects into Mastodon. But not only is this very likely impossible without re-designing great deals of Mastodon which, for example, doesn't offer the multiple-channels-per-account model and doesn't even differentiate between posts and comments. It would also irritate those who stick with Mastodon because it's the most simple of all Fediverse projects.

And indeed, there are many who wish for Mastodon to be frozen on the feature level of late 2022 when they joined. They're even opposed to the introduction of text formatting or quotes to Mastodon, features which would thereby vanish from the Fediverse altogether if the Fediverse was reduced to late-2022 Mastodon.

Besides, you won't be able to get everyone to cooperate on Mastodon, much less on Mastodon staying at the level of late 2022. Literally every project leader who isn't Eugen Rochko will demand more features than Mastodon had half a year ago, actually, even more features than Mastodon has right now.

So you've got two possibilies.

One, Mastodon ends up an even heavier feature monster than Hubzilla because everyone can add to it what they deem necessary or useful.

Two, Eugen Rochko becomes the supreme ruler over the Fediverse, and only he decides which features the Fediverse is allowed to have. And he bases his decision on the wishes of those who want Mastodon to stay simple. Everyone else is reduced to a code monkey with no free will, including Mike Macgirvin, inventor of the #DFRN protocol, #Friendica (both 6 years before Mastodon), the #Zot protocol, #NomadicIdentity (both 5 years before Mastodon), Red Matrix/Hubzilla (4 years before Mastodon), Osada, Zap, Roadhouse, #Streams etc.

2023-05-06 11:38:03

Kevin Davidson

MetalSamurai@mas.to

@LabSpokane This is the problem. Nobody can agree on what “good” means. Capping posts at 500 characters? No! Long posts. Styled text or plain text? Is four images in a post enough? Four options in a poll? Should the web interface indicate which platform other people are using, or hide that information from you? There’s no right answer, just preferences.

2023-05-06 21:16:35

AJ ?️‍?

aj@mast.ajacks.net

@atomicpoet In theory, if I prefer it, could I swap out my personal mastodon instance for calckey on the same domain? Given the glue of federation is APub would the only issue be losing my history or would followers have issues at the change of underlying platform? ?

2023-05-08 14:31:17

Lennart

kinday@mstdn.social

@atomicpoet I love year/month/day progress widget in *key apps. Is does not seem useful at first in context of social networks but in fact it’s a great mindfulness tool and a wonderful aid for people with time blindness.

2023-05-08 15:21:25

caos

caos@anonsys.net

@Chris Trottier @LabSpokane there is no *compelling* reason, but you can use more features with Calckey, for example.
Everyone can find the Fediverse software that best suits their needs and tastes. To try it out first or for different application focuses, it can make sense to have several accounts with different software.

2023-05-08 15:59:13

eshep

eshep@social.trom.tf

@william maggot̶s [IL], #Calckey is doing an excellent job of expanding on the greatness #Misskey has built. And #Mastodon, despite its popularity and newishness, remains the(?) most limiting ways to interact with the Fediverse.

There already exist instances that cover each of these things.

some instances should be designed around the work of journalism or video or podcasting

|journalism: #Plume #WriteFreely
|video: #PeerTube #Owncast
|podcasting: #Funkwhale #Castopod

Having this separation of duties and keeping things modular lets each tool do the best it can for the task it was designed. There are plenty of other modular parts of the fediverse out there as well. Check out the Fediverse Party or FediDB sites for a more extensive listing, or the Fediverse Observer page if you crave a bit more.

writefreely misskey owncast funkwhale plume CastoPod calckey

2023-05-09 08:57:07

Claudius Link

realn2s@infosec.exchange

@atomicpoet
Greate thread, you got me hooked.
Any recommendations on choosing an instance?

2023-05-11 23:12:06

caos

caos@anonsys.net

@Benoegen In #Calckey (and also in #Misskey & #Foundkey) there is the feature of "Antennas". This allows you to define (and combine) keywords to follow - more than just following hashtags. @Chris Trottier

misskey calckey foundkey