Calckey has been one of the more popular Fediverse apps for a while now, and just of today they did a major rebranding.

Firefish’s official account is now live at @firefish. Official announcement post from 4 hours ago.

Currently infosec.town has fully migrated over to Firebird 1.0.0; calckey.social is still in the process of migrating.

As of this thread, the most up-to-date version is hosted on the Codeberg repository. A new docker will be supported at https://hub.docker.com/u/thatonecalculator/firebird once Kainoa finishes sorting out everything (hopefully).

  • can@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    Can anyone give me a quick pitch of what this is? Another twitter-like but differing from mastadon? Like lemmy and kbin?

    • zlatiah@kbin.socialOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      Calckey is a Misskey (https://misskey.io/) fork, hence the name. Misskey is an extremely popular fediverse microblogging service from Japan with a lot of functionalities that Mastodon doesn’t have (quote toot, emoji react, …), in fact if you follow any Japanese accounts on Mastodon there is a good chance they are using Misskey instead

      Basically Calckey diverged enough from Misskey (and I suspect Kainoa didn’t like the name) that they agreed to rebrand. Kind of a big deal tbh

    • Ragnell@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Twitterlike but unlike Mastodon it has quote-tweets, themes, and the ability to add cat ears to your avatar.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        I never got into twitter or mastadon so this might not be for me but it’s always good to see variety.

        • Ragnell@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          And the best part is they all talk to each other so there’s no community splitting.

          Unlike with Bluesky, where we can’t talk to them.