Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

Overall my UX since opening this #Sharkey #BlahajZone account has been quite lovely, but there are various papercuts & frictions all the same. In earlier posts i've mentioned various #Antenna hassles [wrt efficiently managing all my #FollowedHashtags]. The way that Sharkey's own text formatting [#MFM] does not follow standard #Markdown practices in some cases, thus looking not as i intended when viewed in non-Sharky instances, is another issue.

The most recent PITA, albeit it's been present all along, only in recent days seems rather worse, is repeat failures of my two #List timelines to load at all [see attached pic of the common result], & in between these frequent failures, i experience much latency trying to get posts to accept my Likes, or to invoke the [excellent] Search function, or various other commonplace UI interactions. This morning in particular it is, frankly, terrible.

Towards the end, i now recall that my old #Firefish instances also suffered this repeat failure of timelines to load, & other-while large latency, so having it now be my multiple-times-each-day experience here is pretty alarming. However even if not fatal, it poses a significant usability liability... after all, each time i retry my #Friendica instance i eventually keep returning to Masto coz Friendica's latency drives me batty.

Despite once again clearing the cache & doing multiple page reloads, as i am about to post this whinge, one of my timelines has still errored-out rather than loaded. This is galling, & i feel myself on the verge of returning to my Masto-Statuzer instance once again. Tis a pity.

cc: @blahaj

I think we're back to the "where to move this account" question. (and I have yet to find an answer.)

- First, when Firefish died, I thought the answer was going to be the new #Iceshrimp, but it's been more than a year and I'm not sure it's going to be a thing ever. (And I never fully liked Sharkey, for reasons)

- Next, I tried #Akkomane. I thought it was going to be the place, but a few things were deal breakers (I forgot which ones, whoops... but they did greatly bother me at the time)

- Then came #Wafrn. Despite the unpractical name, I love the idea (it uses both ActivityPub and ATProtocol natively), but the UI is just not for me.

- I've been waiting for #Ghost 6.0 release for a little while now. It's imminent. However, it doesn't seem that they will release a full #microblogging platform. I doubt that it'll be much different from the beta (which is great, but can't replace a full-blown platform)

- And I'm extremely interested in #Bonfire, but it won't be ready for users like me for another few months I believe...

Meanwhile, my feed hasn't been working for weeks on my account's #Firefish page, and now, the notifications have stopped working with #Phanpy (I've used this account, partly with the native UI and partly with Phanpy for a little while).

I guess a temporary #Mastodon account will have to be it until something that can replace it comes along (I'm confident that Bonfire will be the one, but I was confident Iceshrimp and Akkomane were going to be the ones too... So... )

Remember #Calckey or #Firefish ?

It was really bloody good.
#fediverse #noxp #misskey

krassomat bei all den Sachen im Fediverse, die in den letzten 2 Jahren untergegangen sind, ist der #tumblr Klon @goblin vom Ex-Angestellten noch immer mehr oder weniger am Leben.
https://goblin.band
#Firefish #ActivityPub #Fediverse #goblin

Okay, if I was pretty quiet here, it's because my home feed is bugged again. I finally found a workaround with Phanpy (which, I should have thought about earlier as I use Phanpy on mobile already, but as I'm old, I rarely use social media on mobile).

(by the way, if you're not using Phanpy, you should give it a try)

Now, the bigger issue of needing to move away from Firefish hasn't been solved yet.

I'd like to migrate this account to "not Mastodon." Without much luck, so far.

First I waited for the new Iceshrimp, but will it come out one day? Not sure.

Then, I tried Akkomane, it seemed great but there were a couple of deal breakers (issue with thumbnails with I shared a link, no Bridge to Bluesky and I forgot what else was missing).

Right now, I'm waiting for the release of Ghost 6.0 but from the beta that I've been trying (follow me there if you want: @david@glitched.earth), I doubt Ghost's team plans on having a full-blown micro-blogging platform attached to the blogs/newsletters. That would be awesome (a blog and microblog under the same account, basically), but I doubt it's their goal.

There's also Bonfire that seems promising, but it's still too new (and I'm not sure there are servers where I could migrate yet, nor managed hosting for it).

So, I'm still waiting and seeing for now.

(note to well-meaning reply people: I'm not asking for suggestions for platforms. I have tried pretty much all of them already, I'm just mostly thinking out loud and telling my followers what's going on with this account.)

#fediverse #firefish

Reminded about the time I tried to migrate to Firefish but then I realized it doesn't do NSFW and I was like damn. That's half my brand

Warum Sharkey?

Ich bin schon seit einigen Jahren im Fediverse unterwegs. Mastodon, Friendica, GoToSocial, Firefish – ich habe sie alle ausprobiert. Jede Instanz war ein neuer Versuch, ein neues Fragment von dem, was ich suche: einen Ort, an dem meine Gedanken nicht nur verhallen, sondern Resonanz finden.

Man muss sich irgendwann die Frage stellen: Was will ich eigentlich mit all dem? Und welche Funktionen braucht es, um das zu ermöglichen?

Sharkey ist ein Fork von Misskey, entstanden aus den Überresten von Firefish. Und genau hier habe ich gefunden, was ich brauche. MFM, Gruppen, Kanäle, Clips, Seiten – all diese Dinge ermöglichen mir, Inhalte auf eine Weise zu teilen, die zu mir passt. Es geht nicht nur um das Posten, sondern um Austausch und Zusammenarbeit. Um Räume, in denen eine kleine Gemeinschaft wachsen kann, spezifisch und geschützt.

Das Design? Endlich etwas, das nicht aussieht, als wäre es in den frühen 2000ern oder gar 1990ern hängen geblieben. Es ist stimmig, aufgeräumt und modern, ohne dabei kühl zu wirken.

Und obwohl Sharkey viele Funktionen bietet, bleibt es ein Microblog – und das ist gut so. Verständlich, klar strukturiert. Hubzilla mag mächtiger sein, aber darin liegt auch seine Schwäche: es erschlägt, verwirrt, verliert die einfachen Nutzer:innen schnell im Dschungel seiner Möglichkeiten.

Ich hoffe, dass Sharkey bleibt. Dass die Entwickler:innen weiter daran arbeiten, dass es wächst und nicht – wie Calckey oder Firefish – irgendwann einfach verschwindet. Es scheint ein Fluch zu sein, der auf Misskey-Forks liegt. Und doch: vielleicht überlebt Sharkey. Vielleicht bricht es den Zyklus.

Für jetzt jedenfalls bin ich angekommen.
Ich wünsche euch einen ruhigen, erholsamen Sonntag. Wir alle suchen einen Ort, der uns nicht verändert – sondern versteht.

#Fediverse #Sharkey #Misskey #Microblogging #Firefish #DigitaleIdentität #Plattformwahl #Hubzilla #Mastodon #ActivityPub

Fedistar v1.11.6
=> https://fedistar.net
Multi-column Fediverse client application for desktop
- Supporting SNS
- - Mastodon
- - Pleroma
- - Friendica
- - Firefish
- - Gotosocial
- - Pixelfed
- - Akkoma (Unofficial)
- - Sharkey (Unofficial)
- - Hometown (Unofficial)
- - Iceshrimp (Unofficial)
- Multiple accounts management
- Multiple columns
- You can see timelines without sign in
- Desktop notification
- Streaming update
- Send reactions from another accounts
- Change column width
Changelog:
=> https://github.com/h3poteto/fedistar/releases/tag/v1.11.6
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Pleroma #Friendica #Firefish #Gotosocial #Pixelfed #Akkoma #Sharkey #Hometown #Iceshrimp

This entire thread, but specifically this post, should be very interesting for all fedi-admins whether small or large instances.

From @jaz

https://mastodon.iftas.org/@jaz/114625417476957562

@iftas @Ofcom
#IFTAS #FediAdmin #Mastodon #Misskey #GoToSocial #FireFish #Lemmy #Fediverse

If you'd like to explore more of Fedi facets, take a look at #Firefish instances such as Calckey.world.

Fab posts features!

Ich habe eine der seltenen #FireFish Instanzen im #Fediverse gesehen, es gibt sie noch

Screenshot der Verbindungen zu anderen Instanzen unserer Instant und welche Software dort läuft.
Unter anderem etliche #Friendica, #goToSocial, #Pixelfed, #IceShrimp, #Akkoma und ein paar Mastodon Instanzen

EDIT sagt, ich soll den link noch anfügen
feuerfis.ch