A big hello and welcome to all the new people who've joined #blahajzone the past couple of days. It's great to have you here!
Our admins are @ada and @supakaity.
Ada leads the front of house and moderation side of Blåhaj Zone, while Kaity leads the back-end and maintains Hajkey for us & a small group of other instances.
We also have a #Lemmy server available for signups at https://lemmy.blahaj.zone and a #kbin server that's soon to be open, for those looking for #Reddit - like communities. They can also be interacted with from here or other places in the Fediverse.
Wenn ich mit #Fedilab versuche zu einem procial.tchncs.de Account zu verbinden erhalte ich den Fehler: Fehler beim Laden der Client ID
Mit federation.network scheint das zu funktionieren. Beide laufen auf #Firefish Version 1.0.3.
Woran könnte das liegen? Vielleicht habt Ihr einen Tipp? @milan@apps
Da es tatsächlich so aussieht, als wäre die Entwicklung und Pflege der Firefish-Software am Ende, habe ich die Registrierung für Accounts eingestellt. Ich werde hier auch meine Aktivitäten vorerst stilllegen.
Wer mir weiterhin folgen möchte, kann dies mit meinem Misskey-Account @pepecyb tun. Meine Aktivitäten werde ich dorthin verlagern. Die FirefishTalk Gruppe lasse ich noch einige Zeit bestehen.
Ich lasse diese Instanz noch eine Weile online, weil ich irgendwie noch auf ein Wunder hoffe.
I’m happy that I made the move to @Sharkey in late November as I was not really confident in the direction Firefish is heading. It was evident with the slow performance and local timeline would fail to load. Activity was decreasing on Sakurajima Social before the move because of how bad of an experience it was.
After the move, activity started to pick up again thanks to the improved performance. Misskey 13 resolved all the issues Misskey 12 forks are facing that caused Foundkey to go EOL with Firefish in the mess it’s currently in (Iceshrimp has the same scaling issues, but at least from what I heard, that team is at least responsive.
With Firefish Social in a worse mess as there are reports no new posts are being fetched, making the timeline 5 days old and the admins completely unresponsive. At this point, I don’t know if it’s even possible to migrate the account off Firefish Social if federation is not working on that server. This is why we dumped Firefish for Sharkey.
With that, besides our server, a handful of established Firefish servers are starting to jump ship to IceShimp or Sharkey. Infosec Exchange’s Firefish server transitioned to IceShimp. It should be even easier to migrate to Sharkey as there are documentation on how to do it.
I do recommend Sharkey over IceShrimp since it has a public timeline view (for visitors), more moderation tools and performance. The Sharkey Team is very responsive and helpful. Of course, they are adding back features that are in Firefish.
But I have a feeling that at the rate things are going for Firefish, it may have a bleak future ahead unless it can turn things around.
It’s unfortunate to see Firefish turn out like this, but it’s not surprising.
Fediverse-Serie: Calckey/Firefish - Kommunikation im Fediverse auf einem neuen Level
Calckey/Firefish gehört im Fediverse zu den Microblogging Diensten aber ist auf Grund seiner Herkunft und Fähigkeiten schon weit mehr als das allseits bekannte Mastodon.
What use to be called Calckey is now called, #FireFish?
Well, it's a flaming hot name of fantastic proportions if I have ever heard one...
Great, now I need to refollow the 'other' crowd, again! Good thing most of them I still have in my followers list.., particularly the crowd of 'CheeseCakes', which sadly makes up most of that list!
The new upcoming text search feature on #Mastodon seems very convoluted and hard to grasp, especially when adding the complexity of which things federate and how. Plus I predict it will most likely decimate the use of hashtags, which are more useful and better. Not that I know how search and all that works on #Firefish but I kinda want to switch because it seems like a really good platform.
What’s a good #Sharkey client on #iOS? It almost seemed like I was able to log into my instance on #IceCubes but it kept just pushing me back after the consent release. The #PWA works really, really well though and is actually better looking vs #Firefish.
For anyone who has moved from Mastodon to any *key variant, do you feel like your engagement is different?
I feel like I don't get quite as much interaction as I did on mastodon. Part of it could be the instance I was on (shout-out to urusai.social for being awesome!) But I feel like it's different since I moved to Firefish and now to Sharkey. I try to use hashtags in my posts too, but I don't know if that is helping or not. #fedi#sharkey#firefish#mastodon
I just hate the spirit of witch hunt swarming around the #fediverse
People have the right to make mistakes, even to say ignorant stupid shit and apologize, amend themselves.
We're all humans. #firefish devs are not criminals.
This "group think" to cancel entire servers for one supposed instance of X or Y deviating 1 sec from the norm is very #Cultish and it's honestly very sad.
single line replies in timelines for iceshrimp, firefish and potentially other derivatives. see quoted post for how it looks. extremely hacky and might mess up. will not work in sharkey or other "modern" misskey instances
requires a browser with nyative nested css and :has (so, literally anything from the last year or so)
Hmmm je reçois pas les réactions, et j'arrive pas a recherche un de mes message sur #Firefish depuis mon instance #Miskkey :blobfoxthonking: pourtant ave d'autre compte j'ai bien eu les réaction.
We finally have a statement from the former Firefish owner/lead Developer. It seems that the Firefish site and Gitlab is given to one of the maintainers. Still, I kind of consider it EOL as the new person in charge isn't a programmer. It's pretty much doesn't change anything unless a new lead developer decides to take on the project. I do wish Kainoa the best in his future endeavors.
There are other options, such as Sharkey, IceShrimp and Catodon. However, IceShrimp is doing a rewrite in C#, so it's basically going to be it's own thing, which might be interesting to try, but not something I would use outside of personal use. Same with Catodon, which might use IceShrimp's C# rewrite.
I have a lot of trust in Sharkey's team in making sure something like this doesn't happen while making it community driven. Taking the Glitch-soc approach like with Mastodon will make Sharkey a more viable option since it’s just Misskey with extra features, some making it to mainline Misskey like with some things from Glitch-Soc making it to vanilla Mastodon.
Sad to hear about #Firefish, but it's something to keep in mind.
If one person is keeping a project alive and is unable to build a long term, sustainable team around the project, relying only on that individual, that project is fragile.
Apropos of nothing, I'd love if I could build a long term, sustainable team around #owncast, if this sparks your interest at all! If I get hit by a bus tonight, Owncast is dead tomorrow.
Soeben das Upgrade auf #Firefish 20240326 eingespielt. Und in der Tat, diese Version hat jetzt Mastodon API, dh der Zugriff ist über ein App möglich (zB #Fedilab).
Alright, I know I haven't given many updates on #Catodon, because frankly there's not a lot to say. We're reorganizing, reprioritizing etc. Things are going slow. I haven't given up on the project, I think we have an interesting approach which is worth exploring, but we're short on human resources atm. Hopefully this will change and things will get exciting again, but we're not there yet. I'll let you know.
However, I wanna talk about another project I'm also sort of involved in lately - #Iceshrimp! So Iceshrimp also started as a #Firefish fork but they are currently rewriting the whole thing on .net/C#! Both the backend and frontend are being rewritten in C# - the frontend on Blazor. AFAIK this is the only fedi project written on .net and I'm really curious for the result!
This has been announced many months before, and Iceshrimp-js is in feature freeze, to allow all efforts to concentrate in the rewrite. Many people were skeptical because it's a huge project - which is true. So let me tell you that finally #Iceshrimp's rewrite will be entering beta soon - meaning, probably before the month is through!
This will practically be a brand new fedi platform, with a UX similar to Firefish (at least initially), with great Mastodon API support for compatibility with existing apps, hopefully with much better performance and a cleaner codebase. I'll keep you posted on how things progress!