Calckey Rebranded to Firefish - see firefish.nz (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by surfbum@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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Calckey has now rebranded to firefish and the https://fediservices.nz/ team have spun up a new instance to replace calckey.nz.

See info on the rebrand here: https://fedi.software/notes/9hdnh5z5hiccne81

and their main page here:

https://joinfirefish.org/

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[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I never really understood calckey/firefish.

So it's like a different implementation of microblogging/Mastodon? sort of like how Kbin and Lemmy are similar and federate with each other but are different?

[-] surfbum@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago

Precisely that yes, they all use activity pub to communicate. Firefish/Calckey was forked from Misskey which was/is? huge in Japan and created before mastodon. It's got extra features missing in Mastodon and basically it's personal preference on which to use. There are other options out there too Pleroma, Akkoma and more.

Firefish was created to enhance on Misskey, anglosise (is that a word) it and enhance it's security and usability.

One downside is the lack of apps for mobile on Firefish, but they are creating their own and the PWA works rather nicely.