No, not really. Firefish is a microblogging platform. Kbin is a link aggregation and topic discussion platform, with a wonky attempt at microblogging.
I wouldn't call it an alternative to Mastodon or Twitter either, because Firefish has features that neither of them have. The only Microblogging platform it could be seen as an alternative to, now that it has gone beyond being just a fork, is Misskey.
People tend to compare Firefish and Misskey more to Tumblr, but they still have things that either were inspired by other microblogging platforms (twitter, included), or that are unique to them. So they aren't fully "Tumblr alternatives" either.
The point of federation is that you can create community with people all over it, no matter what software the server they joined is running.
Mastodon being too big to the point that 90% of it users things it's the whole fediverse is not positive nor contributes to create an stable community. Many people coming from twitter run from the fediverse, because they're told there's nothing other than mastodon, which they find hard to use, lacking and extremely toxic.
Misskey, Firefish, Akkoma, GoToSocial, Microblogpub, etc give people other options that may fit their need for/usage of a microblogging platform better than mastodon does, as each (including Mastodon and each of its forks) has it's own "profile"
1- Never join the official instances. They always are too big that are almost impossible to moderate.
2- In which timeline did you see those comments? Because if it was global, it's possible these are unknown servers the admins aren't aware of. (The trending section is global)
Cool things on Firefish/clackey, that Mastodon and most of it forks don't have:
• Quote notes (Misskey and Akkoma, a fork of Pleroma, also have them)
• Antennas. They allow you to add words, tags and accounts to lists and create parallel timelines that you can see whenever you want, without having to follow this accounts
• You can create personalized timelines for certain accounts to appear in.
• It has a drive section where you can upload files.
• Channels. This are public local group that the members of a server can create, join and interact within.
• Private chat groups. Local only.
• Emoji reactions
• Clips. These are collections of notes ("note" is the name post receive in Misskey and Firefish)
You can create multiple clips and manage them by giving a name and description to each. You can also choose to make your clips public to make them available to other users.
• You can create custom web pages. For now they don't federate.
Spicy food. I'm almost the only one in my family that isn't allergic to several spices, so, because my family didn't cook with them, I didn't get to eat anything relatively spicy until I was an adult and could cook for myself
No. Some pets do have dietary restrictions. This dietary restriction can be permanent or momentary, but they do exist.
My youngest (in age, and also the last in being adopted) cat, who had lived three years on the streets until she appeared at our doorstep, came not having eating well (or at all) for who knows how much time (she was malnourished) to the point that she couldn't tolerate the food my oldest cats ate, so she was prescribed special food for her, so she'd have an easy time adjusting herself to eat everyday ones again (or for the first time, as we don't know if she ever had a home before, or if she was born in the streets). Now, three years later, she's doing great and fully eating common cat food (which she began to do last year).
But, vets always have brands that they advertise for. The brand ours advertise is too expensive, so we went/go another route for both the common food and the dietary restriction food. Luckily a friend of my mum has a pet shop so she could get us the cheaper, but equal in content and quality, food brand for us.
I don't know how I feel about the new name, but I'm curious to see what new features come with the rebranding.
Calckey/Firefish is by far my favourite microblogging platform. It has a greater number of features than mastodon, and I personally find it more inviting.
What I wanna know is, with it being its own thing now (rather than a fork of misskey), while it still be supported by Misskey apps, like MilkTea?
I think Calckey/firefish, because of it history and characteristics, tends to have more themed instances. Many of the so called "general" instances, are multi-topic or multi-fandom themed instances rather than actual general purpose ones.
I think someone not used to these things would see ‘Coming Soon’ and just leave it as not launched yet.
It's probably not launched yet. The main instance hasn't open (or rather moved from calckey) and other intances are moving from either old Calckey or foundkey.
Firefish has already set up a new site and infrastructure under their new name. The flagship instance of Calckey.social is in the process of moving over to Firefish.social. The migration effort is intended to retain users, posts, credentials, and data. The move is expected to officially happen over the course of the next few days.
I would say to wait at least a week to check the official instance.
For what I understand Meta only reached Mastodon/Misskey/Pleroma and PixelFed instance admins. There hasn't been mention of they even reaching Friendica/socialhome/hubzilla admins. So I doubt they even care contacting admins from "non-competing" software based servers
Also, I don't think the NDA stops admins from disclosing they were contacted by Meta. It only stops them to talk about what's been discussed on these reunions, because several tech bros at mastodon where prouly announcing they were "invited by Meta to a talk about the future of the Fediverse" and how they accepted. So the admins of Lemmy World deciding not to confirm or deny doesn't necessarily prove they signed anything.
You acted as if there weren't ways of reaching, only because it wasn't the one you wanted to have.
I suggest you to stop relying on google, because in general it doesn't give good result for Lemmy (less for Beehaw in specific), and start to follow/join at least one of the alternative groups/accounts
Recommending profiles to follow is already part of the onboarding process, and is not in any way equivalent to “pushing profiles for you to see”.
So, if its already possible. What would your freemium features add?
There is no “TOS” for the fediverse software.
Each software has, in fact, its rules/terms. Peertube, for example, is explicitly non-profit.
Look, I really tried to keep an open mind about this conversation, but now you are distorting the truth and I can’t tell if it’s for ignorance or dishonesty. I think it’s time to end it. Have a nice one.
To me what you are doing trying to monetise something that is completely free of charge, while pretending you are doing it to promote the fediverse, "making it mainstream" (the last thing the hardcore fedizens want), IS dishonest. So I guess we are even.
You do know you can't make money out of any fediverse software, don't you? You can make money on the fediverse, like artists and professionals do, but you can't make money out of it.
From mastodon main page:
We respect your agency. Your feed is curated and created by you. We will never serve ads or push profiles for you to see.
This goes in contradiction with an option on one of your polls:
Better recommendations on who to follow
Other than accounts that suggest you people to follow on the fediverse, there's no algorithm that recommends you accounts to follow or content to see. In fact, this very thing would go against the TOS of Mastodon, Peertube, and other fediverse software
You could make your own software that offers those things and give users the posibility/ability to federate, but you cannot legally add premium features or recommendation algorithms to already existing fediverse software or any fork of it.
If you go take a look at my first blog post about communick, you would see that the last thing I want to have is a “Corporation” in the Fediverse, but instead I want to have it strong and attractive enough for small, independent service providers
No. What you want is to make money out of decentralised social media.
Not every business is a “corporation”. Not every professional that provides a service for money is a rent-seeker
People offering their services and talent for money already exist on the fediverse.
The fact that there are “business coming to the fediverse” does not mean that they can only operate on the same (failed) business models from Big Tech.
Funny. Because in the polls you asked a question about features someone would be interested in pay for. Some of which are characteristical of corporate social media...
I’m gonna say this only once, but that’s an incredibly rude thing to say. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt in my previous reply but it’s obvious now that you’re just treating me like an idiot.
Yeah, because you haven't been rude from the beginning (you were)
People (including me) explained to you how you could have reached the admins and stay in touch so this kind of thing wouldn't take you by surprise. When you had been explained several times this things and you keep insisting you don't have any option because "you couldn't google it", one has to begin to think that you're doing this in bad faith.
your use of the “Royal We” to express a personal opinion.
You do understand that it's an expression, don't you?
not backing up said opinion with any type of argument, which makes it sound like you are simply stating it as a fact.
It's a fact. Monetisation of any kind is against the mere idea of federated social media. People com here to be away from corporations, advertising and the like. The model of social media that seeks to make social networking into a business model is in crisis, why would anyone want to made the fediverse into that?
I have to admit I never got to watch Elfen Lied. I never was much into gore, so it was a "I probably should watch this anime everyone is talking about", but never ended up actually watching it. And now, it's been years since I finished an anime. I tend to be more interested in reading manga nowadays; and that I seldom do.
No, not really. Firefish is a microblogging platform. Kbin is a link aggregation and topic discussion platform, with a wonky attempt at microblogging.
I wouldn't call it an alternative to Mastodon or Twitter either, because Firefish has features that neither of them have. The only Microblogging platform it could be seen as an alternative to, now that it has gone beyond being just a fork, is Misskey.
People tend to compare Firefish and Misskey more to Tumblr, but they still have things that either were inspired by other microblogging platforms (twitter, included), or that are unique to them. So they aren't fully "Tumblr alternatives" either.