Other Fediverse projects

Technology@beehaw.org – 218 points – 1 years ago

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I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I'm enjoying BookWyrm very much; it's the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I've been looking for for years.

I love the simplicity of Paper.wf for blogging. It's truly elegant; I just click the link and start typing. But as far as I can tell there's no way for others to find my blog or for me to find other blogs on the site. There's no browse or follow feature. Nor can anyone comment on my posts! Those seem to me to be HUGE omissions.

Have you used any Fediverse blogging options? What are they like? And what other Fediverse services would you recommend? Other than Mastodon, I've already tried that (it didn't excite me).

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Calckey has the superior feature set to Mastodon by far. When the project matures, it'll be a force to reckon with.

How is the first I've heard of Clackey? Their website is the most inviting one I've seen with the Fediverse so far.

The project is only like a month or two old, though it is a fork of a more well-established Fediverse platform (MissKey), so it's still building up awareness of its existence.

I really liked the misskey that it has custom emojis and a lot of Japanese users sadly i couldn't figure out a good way to search tags or topics.

Calckey certainly looks cool and feature rich, but every Calckey instance's main page alone slows my computer down a lot and overwhelms my eyeballs lol. Don't know what to do to make that better.

Well, it is a new project, so it probably needs some optimization. As far as visual clutter goes though, I think Mastodon's quad column layout is much worse about that.

Yeah, I remember when it was first launched and it's come a long way already.

AFAIK, the quad column layout in Mastodon is based on Tweetdeck. I don't like it either, but some ex-Twitter users do, so that's neither here nor there.

I use Ivory both for iOS and macOS, and that’s a great way to browse Masto, IMO. When I’m in the browser though, I do use and prefer the quad layout.

so I signed up for a Calckey account (on calckey.world) but content is extremely limited compared to what I see on Mastodon?

for example: if I search for the hashtag #F1 on calckey the most recent post it finds is from a week ago

this whole federation thing is still a bit confusing at times about what gets federated and where, #F1 is pretty popular on Mastodon.social when I search

The server list says that instance has 71 users, so that would probably be why. Posts only show up on an instance if something requests them (users following an account, searching a permalink, subscribing to a community, etc). There are solutions to this problem, such as relays in which servers agree to funnel a bunch of posts to each other periodically to share content. You should ask your instance admin if they have one set up, or if they'd be willing to if not. Otherwise, you should make an account on a larger instance, as those tend to be better federated.

hmm, I guess the responsibility is partially on me to manually find/follow people from other instances to increase the cross-instance federation?

right now I am creating new accounts on all the different fediverse platforms so I can see which UI/UX I prefer, but I would like to eventually use only 1 or 2 accounts if possible

Following users does help increase federation, yeah. Another solution is creating a dummy account that follows a bunch of users in order to pull in their posts.

If you follow folks (shameless plug of myself - like me) on Calckey.social, which is I think a bigger server. That may help! When I moved to Calckey I transferred over everyone I was following on Mastodon

How heavy is it to run? I am waiting for GoToSocial to mature slightly before jumping on to host my own instance, but the only reason I'm choosing it really is because of its lightweight-ness.

I need to check it out again. I ended up making an account and never using it. Was just something about it I didn't like, but at this point, I can't remember what. Lol.