I created a Sharkey instance...

Ruud@lemmy.worldmod to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 62 points – Sharkey.World
sharkey.world

Next to Mastodon.world and Lemmy.world I am also running Calckey.world. This was running Calckey, a Misskey fork. That was re-branded to FireFish (that's the danger of running sites with the software name in the URL... :-) ).

Unfortunately due to circumstances the FireFish software will no longer be maintained. Therefore I was looking for another Misskey fork that could replace it, and I found Sharkey. This looks really nice.

So being who I am, I registered https://sharkey.world and installed it. It still needs some configuring and branding, but it works and you can use it! (As you will see it currently uses the Calckey.world branding)

I will write a brief how-to on migrating from Calckey to Sharkey and hope the calckey.world users will migrate.

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What is sharkey?

Looks like Twitter clone?

Yeah somewhere between twitter and facebook clone, more like Mastodon. But open-source and federated, like Lemmy.

Mastodon is open source and federated.

Ahh yes I meant as opposed to Twitter and Facebook. But I worded it badly 😁

Kinda like Mastodon (micro-blog site) but with way more functionality and super-confusing feature names.

Unfortunately none of the -keys that I know of allow you to follow hashtags so it's an instant nonstarter for me.

I'm not a fan of the misskey forks because most of them are very buggy and have very bloated UIs. I tried Iceshrimp and hajkey and both were terribly buggy. Sharkey was okay but still very buggy, biggest issue by far is the fact that follow attempts typically hang for long amounts of time if they even go through at all. Not sure if it's a frontend issue though or an issue with the software itself, I tried Sharkey's Mastodon API to use the Mastodon app and it seems to work okay there. I still wouldn't trust it over mastodon which is much more polished and stable.

There are some cool features in it like the cat ears, the gallery, and very robust theming elements, but ultimately stability and usability come first for social platforms I'm going to use seriously

Yeah we need a fork that cuts out the bloat and adds hashtag following 😂

Which one as the best potential :
(between Lemmy, Mastodon or Sharkey)
1-for users,
2-for moderators,
3-for administrators,
4-for developers ?

For moderators surely Mastodon. For admins too.. For users: that's a taste-thing. I'm not a developer so can't say...

The instance works really well :)