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Calckey has been one of the more popular Fediverse apps for a while now, and just of today they did a major rebranding.

Firefish's official account is now live at @firefish. Official announcement post from 4 hours ago.

Currently infosec.town has fully migrated over to Firebird 1.0.0; calckey.social is still in the process of migrating.

As of this thread, the most up-to-date version is hosted on the Codeberg repository. A new docker will be supported at https://hub.docker.com/u/thatonecalculator/firebird once Kainoa finishes sorting out everything (hopefully).

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[–] GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone provide or point me to a quick rundown of how Misskey and Calckey/Firefish differ?

[–] zlatiah@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know all the differences since I didn't write code for the project so... here are the contributors' own words: https://codeberg.org/firefish/firefish/src/branch/develop/FIREFISH.md

[–] Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looking forward to (hopefully) getting better Docker support

[–] zlatiah@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I hope so too! I'm self-hosting Calckey via docker right now, and having one ready-to-go docker was something I found quite nice with Calckey. I hope this continues to be the case with Firefish

[–] magmaus3@szmer.info 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

mk.absturztau.be is also going to migrate (from foundkey)

[–] GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I heard that foundkey's development has stalled. I'm guessing we're gonna see instances move from Foundkey to either Misskey or Firefish?

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can anyone give me a quick pitch of what this is? Another twitter-like but differing from mastadon? Like lemmy and kbin?

[–] zlatiah@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Calckey is a Misskey (https://misskey.io/) fork, hence the name. Misskey is an extremely popular fediverse microblogging service from Japan with a lot of functionalities that Mastodon doesn't have (quote toot, emoji react, ...), in fact if you follow any Japanese accounts on Mastodon there is a good chance they are using Misskey instead

Basically Calckey diverged enough from Misskey (and I suspect Kainoa didn't like the name) that they agreed to rebrand. Kind of a big deal tbh

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Oh cool. Thank you for filling me in. Maybe I'll check it out.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

It has a lot more features compared to Mastodon - I made the switch and am happy with it so far.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Twitterlike but unlike Mastodon it has quote-tweets, themes, and the ability to add cat ears to your avatar.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never got into twitter or mastadon so this might not be for me but it's always good to see variety.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

And the best part is they all talk to each other so there's no community splitting.

Unlike with Bluesky, where we can't talk to them.

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