Firefish is a hot, new microblogging platform with a gorgeous UI and tons of new features! Here's a guide on how to easily switch over from Mastodon.

From the article:

Mastodon is a great microblogging platform, but maybe you want to try something new. Firefish made a splash recently, and a lot of people are talking about it. If you’ve played with it for a while and want to officially take the plunge, here’s some tips on moving from your Mastodon Instance to a Firefish one.

  • Alien SurferEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    I read it. Even looked at firefish.social. I fail to see the difference. It’s people posting and people replying just like here. Or do I need to actually sign up to see the differences? Or can some one elaborate, because this simply smells of advertisement.

    • Baron Von JOPEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      fail to see the difference. It’s people posting and people replying just like here. Or do I need to actually sign up to see the differences?

      Some of the differences are justthings an instance an admin can change on Mastodon, such as

      • Post character limit is 4,000
      • Search results include post contents

      But there are things that would require a Mastodon admin to to fork and modify, too

      • Quote boosting is supported
      • You can format your post with markup
      • Emoji reactions instead of only ‘like’
      • Antennas are a more dynamic way to group posts than just following hashtags. You can specify keywords to match from the post body (both include and exclude), specific users, specific servers, include or exclude reply posts

      It’s ultimately just another front-end to ActivityPub and the Fediverse. Use whichever one suits your preferences as they can see and follow each other regardless.

      • Alien SurferEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        This is really good info, thanks.

      • kspatlas
        1•1 year ago

        AFAIK mastodon has a hard limit of 500, changing it would either require source code modding, usage of a fork or using another software