It was actually created in 2022 as Calckey, as a fork of Misskey, so one of the Fediverse social networking sites. It has recently rebranded though to the Firefish name. It is a real breath of fresh air though in terms of features and great UI!
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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It is a real breath of fresh air though in terms of features and great UI!
I want to be able to do more than just upvote this lol. I was so pleasantly surprised. In minutes I was sure I wanted to migrate my Mastodon account.
What about mobile apps? I’m on mastodon, but I basically never see the mastodon UI as I stick with Ivory (as I’m a former Tweetbot User on some ancient Microblogging Plattform which has transformed to something… else).
I don’t want to use some „nice looking“ Webpages which are optimized for mobile screens. I want dedicated Apps, as they offer mostly the much better experience.
I think the recent run of developing high class Mastodon Apps earlier this year (as the mentioned ancient Plattform kicked them out) gave mastodon an enormous boost.
Also that’s the same for Lemmy for me. Since Memmy and Mlem are in the AppStore (where I preferred Memmy), I use Lemmy much more and haven’t opened Reddit since 1st July.
So, as long as there aren’t any major high class mobile Apps for firefish, I don’t expect it getting anywhere near to mastodon.
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I think I'll stay on Mastodon. I don't like the Firefish UI. I haven't tried Akkoma yet.
First time user of firefish. Kind of like the UI. “Global” section is kind of chaotic. Guess that’s just the fediverse for ya
The one-column layout of Firefish is good, it has tons more features than Mastodon
But the multi-column deck layout that I always use, it's kinda borked thus infuriating to use. Probably needs more time for the deck layout.
Maybe I'm blind but I'm not seeing a way to follow tags on Firefish (I joined the main instance because the UI convinced me).
You can't follow tags (something that should be added), but you can add them to Antennas
Yea looks like you're right.
There's Antennas, although they may not be exactly what you're looking for since they're in a separate location from your main feed.
Can it federate with mastodon?
Indeed! It is, at the most basic level, another UI for the fediverse
Been waiting for the main instance to start up! Thanks for this guide.