CalcKey Officially Rebrands as Firefish

3 years ago by Sean Tilley to c/fediverse

CalcKey adopts a new name, new logo, new site, and new project infrastructure. While the name is somewhat odd, this feels like a really big step forward for the project.

Marxine 13 points 3 years ago

Cute logo, although it sounds like it's related to FireFox somehow.

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deadsuperhero 8 points 3 years ago

Yeah, that's definitely a reaction I saw as well. At least it's not a web browser? 😛

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Marxine 9 points 3 years ago

It's an ActivityPub browser, arguably 😅

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maegul 5 points 3 years ago

It will be interesting to see if any browser adds features to become basically an activitypub client.

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deadsuperhero 5 points 3 years ago

You know, it's not impossible. But, very few ActivityPub platforms actually support the Client to Server protocol in any meaningful way. Most platforms use some variation of the Mastodon APIs.

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BananaTrifleViolin 5 points 3 years ago

They may end up rebranding again as there is already software put there using the name.

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deadsuperhero 6 points 3 years ago

Yeah, that's kind of funny. Naming things is hard.

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peeteep 4 points 3 years ago

I had to Google it to find out what it even is.

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Vendetta9076 2 points 3 years ago

What is it?

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HughJanus 7 points 3 years ago

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Kes 5 points 3 years ago

It's basically an alternate version of Mastodon, similar to how Kbin and Lemmy both do similar things while being seperate projects, and a fork of another project called Misskey

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natflow 1 point 3 years ago

Does Firefish/Misskey/Foundkey work seamlessly with Mastodon like Lemmy works with Kbin?

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deadsuperhero 2 points 3 years ago

For the most part. There's a bunch of different microblogging and macroblogging platforms that all talk to each other through ActivityPub, but of course there are occasionally quirks when it comes to compatibility.

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peeteep 1 point 3 years ago

I’m still not quite sure..

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yessikg 1 point 3 years ago

Firefish is very close to the perfect Tumblr replacement, it even has the custom looks for each blog

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NotAPenguin -16 points 3 years ago

I highly recommend checking it out, it's a much nicer experience than Mastodon.

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southsamurai 1 point 3 years ago

Eh, mastodon has better apps available though. So user experience in that regard differs.

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tenkuucastle 2 points 3 years ago

Haven’t tried it out yet, but supposedly the newest update makes calckey work with some mastodon clients!

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southsamurai 1 point 3 years ago

Thanks! It works!

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OctoFloofy 2 points 3 years ago

Firefish supports now all apps afaik that are compatible with mastodon. You might just not have access to certain exclusive features of the instance.

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southsamurai 1 point 3 years ago

Sweet! It works!

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