@atomicpoet@mastodon.social @fediversenews@venera.social
the calckey community has a very non-cynical way to go and - i think this is remarkable! - takes pleasure in experimenting and making mistakes ​:calc_smile_hearts:​

@atomicpoet @fediversenews I don’t know about #Bluesky itself, but I know the users of it who invade my threads and go OT are anxiety and stress inducing

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Calckey is fun and I really love it after only 3 weeks time. Also, the ppl don´t seem so serious compared to Mastodon (my observation and maybe not fair)

I hope Calckey will grow and more ppl will join it!

@fediversenews

@atomicpoet @fediversenews ...this, to me, is the whole ballgame. Why, then, does Bluesky (purportedly) trump what Mastodon has done / is doing / will do?

@atomicpoet @fediversenews Whut? Bloody hell.

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@gavinkarlmeier FYI #Bluesky #Dorsey

"Jack Dorsey even implies that #Bluesky is just a “proof of concept”. " 😳

Let's first take a look at what Calckey looks like in desktop mode.

As you can see, it's got a very media-rich presentation of a feed.

But there's also more!

On the right pane are some widgets. You can customize which widgets you see there. I opted to see trending hashtags and recent notifications.

On the right pane is the navbar. I'll get into that in a bit.

At the top are different feeds including home, local, social, recommended, global, lists, and antennaes.

@atomicpoet everyone talking about cool features, but doesn't mention all misskey-based software curse:

Horribly slow, over-bloated front-end

It even has fucking scripting language. Implemented in fucking JavaScript.

It takes THREE spinners to show a post. And even more layout shifts. Maybe for someone who are used to twitter this is usual, but this is not okay

@atomicpoet @kainoa @fediversenews Whats calckey like to self-host compared to mastodon?*

Ooh, there's a docker for it.

@atomicpoet thanks giving it a try

@atomicpoet @kainoa @fediversenews
Already there!… I haven’t checked but, is there an app version?

@atomicpoet I've not used *key but presumably the negatives are similar there as here?

The issues of moderation etc must be similar across the Fediverse.. or have they somehow dealt with the CW issues that POC pointed out were unfriendly to them?

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To be fair, even by specifically googling it, it is not easy to find a decent explanation of what calckey&co are, and why one should bother.
And this is a problem common to a lot of the fediverse: there are a lot of options out there, but for a newcomer it is almost impossible to learn about it (and I am speaking from personal experience).

@atomicpoet @fediversenews There's definitely something to what @gruber is saying. With manual account approval on mastodon.social and it being pushed as the default, I'd love to see the abandonment rate... Perhaps it's different when signing up through a phone? But getting someone all excited about trying a new social network is hard enough. Now they have to retain that excitement for an unknown amount of time, and then care enough to engage at some later date... Not much fun...

@atomicpoet @fediversenews

And it is because they claim that people are confused when they are going to chose a server.

I personally, think that changing the word "server" to "community" during the signup process would make the process easier for new users (I think/hope).

@atomicpoet @socialmedianews I had not even *heard* of BeReal until *this week*. I'm still not sure exactly what it is...er...was.

@atomicpoet @socialmedianews Went down like a SpaceX rocket

@atomicpoet Maybe they should rebrand to ForReal?

@atomicpoet @pixelfed @fediversenews Awe, thanks!!

@atomicpoet @dansup @pixelfed @fediversenews Or a GitHub Sponsorship.

https://github.com/sponsors/dansup

WOW, Quotes, Italics, Bolds on Mastodon. So much quicker than expected.

Thanks for posting the image with the sample. It was good to see it.

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@atomicpoet I keep forgetting that wrapping text in stars gives italics and two stars gives bold text in many apps.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews a Markdown flavor?

@atomicpoet @fediversenews @dansup reminds me I should spend more time on my Friendica account (and actively invite friends and family).

Also might be time to explore mastodon alternatives.

@atomicpoet @dansup @fediversenews It would be interesting to know more about the languages used in the posts.

Also https://calckey.org follows your operating sysem's theme.

So if you use a light theme, it looks like this.

@atomicpoet How does this compare to, say, chirp or gup.pe?

@atomicpoet not sure I am going to use Friendica, but at least I enjoyed reading the block list of Venera “Not my department” and “Nothing but f*cking porn”

If you create a Fediverse group, Mastodon will label the account as a Group.

Although Mastodon itself doesn't support groups yet, it is nice that you can use groups *with* Mastodon by tagging the group.

@atomicpoet @stefan

That's a fantastic site. I really like the presentation, and the info given is very helpful. Thank you for your work, Stefan, and thanks for sharing, Chris.

One slight suggestion because I'm a total #news hound. Maybe add "or news" to this sentence? :)

"And every major social media site has a great alternative in the fediverse, so it doesn't matter if you're into sharing images, videos, or short quips."

@atomicpoet @stefan @fediversenews

Not a UX expert but that looks umm, insane to me.

Every single service is a new and often weird word, so that’s not plain language.
Example: People care about their Twitter network, which of the five weird names should they choose to replicate Twitter? There’s no indication. Not to mention none are all that similar to Twitter user base, which leads to disappointment.

@atomicpoet “I didn’t sell you out, I sold to the highest bidder” is some hot take.

@atomicpoet he's defining sell out and saying it's not a sell out. Completely agree with you.

@atomicpoet he could have taken twitter private

@atomicpoet @pixelfed it would be even better if context was someone saying “so glad I just finished making that sweet, sweet pixelfed iOS app, can’t wait to upload it to app store in the morning.”

@atomicpoet @pixelfed Sir, this is a Wendy's

@atomicpoet decentralized networks work best

@atomicpoet I specifically follow you because of the things you post.

Not because of the things people think you ought to be posting.

@atomicpoet and how many of «people who care about social media decentralisation» are on mastosoc? :blobcatgooglytrash:

By the way, my content moderation is set to hide political hate groups.

I got a racist message anyway.

Clearly, moderation by algorithm isn’t working.