• SpringMango@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Can anyone ELI5 what the difference is between Mastodon and Firefish? Are they basically the same but a different instance similar to sh.itjust.works vs lemmy.world?

    • simple@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It’s sort of like the difference between Lemmy and Kbin, they’re different websites that share the same concept and can communicate with one another.

      • Elle@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yep! And they have different styling & feature sets that some may prefer, like Firefish has full text search & quoting posts unlike Mastodon for a super basic yet big difference.

        There’s also a bunch of other features I haven’t dug into much that are interesting, like “antennae” for following words/hashtags and widgets for a variety of things. I don’t know how well they all work, but overall it’s aiming to be much more robust than Mastodon.

        • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 year ago

          quoting posts unlike Mastodon

          what happens when a Firefish user quotes a post and it federates to Mastodon? Is the quote lost?

          • Elle@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Not sure tbh…It may be, or it may try to convert it to a link to the quoted post instead.