@atomicpoet#Firefish is an terrific new name for #Calckey and big kudos to whoever designed the logo and the team of people who guided that difficult and hopefully not too contentious decision. The logo and naming checks off all the good branding decision boxes for me.
I would be willing to try #firefish (formerly #calckey) again at some point, but it was a deal breaker for me that the federation (or defederation, more like) status of servers are not publicly available.
For #ActivityPub to be understandable and for clients to trust server admins, these types of decisions should always be made public whenever they are made -- preferably with reasoning as well. Otherwise, users are left in the dark and won't understand why they can't see a profile / post.
I'm kind of tempted to find a games related instance to join that doesn't use Mastodon & instead uses Misskey or Calckey/Firefish as some of their features appeal to me more.
I just need to dig around and see which instances might click with me, which is always the trick in this space.
I am actually getting ready to go into terminal and set one up one up right now. Terminal is loading. Waiting for my #parkinsons meds to kick in so I don't twitch click something and mess the install up. I hate that.😂
If I am successful, #FireFish can say, 'It's so easy even Paul installed it.' 😜 lol
I'm sitting up that special purpose domain (yet to be announced) we private messaged about the other day
Calckey is making some big moves today, first rebranding as Firefish with a new logo, resetting their version to 1.0, and adding some interesting new features. As a Fediverse first, all Calckey.social users will be migrated to Firefish.social automatically. Not sure how that last bit will work, but we will find out soon!
@AudraTran@firefish what it means is that Calckey as a brand name is changing to #Firefish, with a new flagship instance, new code repository etc.. If you're not an admin it shouldn't change anything for you 😉
See people switching to #calckey / #firefish and it sounds nice but I've decided I really want my next instance to be democratically governed - so I'd appreciate any tips on that!
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.
Antennas.
Antennas are effectively custom timelines. They work approximately like watching hashtags, but they can look for normal text as well. You can add as many phrases as you like and the results can be filtered with an ignore list.
You can make an antenna that just shows posts from specific users and notifies you when they post something new, you can make an antenna that collects posts containing or excluding certain key words, or you can make an antenna that collects only posts with files attached. You can even make an antenna consisting of “Posts from specific users” with “Show replies” checked.
Setting up
You can set up antenna by going to the More! section on your sidebar, and selecting Antennas. Press Add + to create your first. This is where you can also manage & edit previously created antennas.
Images:
Where to find More! on the sidebar (highlighted)
Where to find Antennas in the More! menu (highlighted)
My antennas page showing Add + button and my previously created antennas.
4 & 5) When you click Add + you get this page to set up your antenna. I've set one up as my Calckey antenna and another to alert me when PastaThief posts. There's a lot to go through here. Expect a separate post sometime soon.
6 & 7) What those antenna feeds look like.
On our progressive web app you can access your antennas by selecting the UFO in the top right corner.
Clicking on the UFO button brings up all my antennas and the link to manage/edit them
Calckey rebrands as Firefish (calckey.social)
Calckey is making some big moves today, first rebranding as Firefish with a new logo, resetting their version to 1.0, and adding some interesting new features. As a Fediverse first, all Calckey.social users will be migrated to Firefish.social automatically. Not sure how that last bit will work, but we will find out soon!