Which do you think is the better microblogging platform? Why?

    • Masimatutu@mander.xyzEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Although Mastodon plus web client phanpy.social is arguably even more modern. But I encourage supporting smaller projects such as Iceshrimp!

  • AtaKe@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I’ve used Mastodon in the past, and currently Sharkey(a Misskey fork) is my microblogging platform of choice.

    Mastodon: fast, polished, and has a huge choice of different apps for all platforms. But the main drawback is its lack of features. “Why can’t I search for the posts” " or “Why there’s no quote repost button?”

    It was obvious to me that Mastodon can’t do all the things I need. I was desperately thinking that I’ll have to move back to Twitter, but at the last moment Calckey rebranded itself to Firefish, and it got my attention. “Finally, a great replacement for Twitter” I thought. But the terrible performance of firefish. social made my experience with fediverse just terrible (I also used Calckey.world, but I moved from it for no reason tbh).

    I was once again searching for an alternative, and this time I found it.

    Sharkey: has all the features of Misskey + added some from other forks (like Firefish’s post editing). I picked a small instance with less than 10 people, and the performance is really great. My only nitpick is that you can’t swipe between home/local/federated feeds like in Firefish, but that’s a small issue.

    I personally think Misskey (and its forks) should become the mainstream microblogging platforms on the fediverse, while Mastodon should retire.

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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    7 months ago

    If I wanted to run for myself or a community of a few thousand people: pleroma.

    If I wanted to run for more people than that: takahe.

    In both cases: look into a different frontend like elk.zone, soapbox or semaphore.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Haven’t used Pleroma. I use Mastodon and Sharkkey but both of them have major drawbacks.

    Mastodon - character limits are pointless, frustrating, and not good for anyone. Trying to follow a conversation is a nightmare.

    Sharkkey/Misskey - can’t follow hashtags. This is the one giant complaint I have with this service. It’s also very complicated and cluttered and confusing. I don’t understand why these new services need to reinvent common vocabulary for their services (ie: notes (which is a completely different thing on Twitter), channels, antennas, pages etc). It just makes learning them so much more confusing.

    • 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social
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      7 months ago

      I don’t understand why these new services need to reinvent common vocabulary for their services (ie: notes (which is a completely different thing on Twitter), channels, antennas, pages etc)

      I don’t know about the rest of the terms, but note is actually the standard term for a microblog post. It was used by services before and contemporaneous to twitter and is the ActivityStream term for these posts.