How to Move from Mastodon to Firefish
How to Move from Mastodon to Firefish
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.
I just started using mastadon, is there something wrong with it? Why would I want to switch to firefish?
Just thought if there were people interested in migrating instead of having parallel accounts this article would be useful. It boils down to what style of UX do you want. Twitter? Maybe Mastodon. Instagram? Maybe Pixelfed. Tumblr? Maybe Firefish. All of them are fully compatible with each other, you can follow users across all of them and they all show up in each others' global feeds.
I don't think there's anything wrong with Mastodon, per se. I'm just still trying out the various ActivityPub platforms to see which UX is the most natural to me. I've found the common 500 character post limit occasionally problematic, but haven't wanted to take the time to find an instance which increases it. No markdown/markup formatting. Threading of replies is hard to follow with the web UI and official app (Fedilab handles it much better). I haven't really explored Firefish's antennas vs Mastodon's lists yet.
I find it has a lot of Discoverability issues. A lot.
But I don't actually know if Firefish solves it. I know it is a fork of Misskey, so by default it should have galleries and text search, but I'll figure out when I try it later today.
having 1719 fediverse platforms won't help fediverse grow
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.
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.
I think Firefish has some nice UX improvements over Mastodon, like kbin vs Lemmy, but I like having a Tusky or Fedilab type of app. I see Milktea for Misskey/Mastodon, but looks like probably not FOSS and the screenshots in the Play Store listing don't really entice me to try it out.
Kaiteki is open source and supports Firefish as well as a lot of other fediverse services.
Forgot to mention that app! I did see it but they are listed as alpha and without any actual versioned release of the app yet. I'll keep an eye on it, but the Firefish devs also said they're working on their own native app. Fedilab devs did announce they would support Calckey, but it seems to have taken a major backseat as that was like a year ago, and the issue was then closed as "we'll only support Mastodon API platforms in this app" and then the issue was re-opened after some vote.
Thanks for the cool article, I was just looking for something like this!
Do you know if it's also possible to migrate multiple accounts into one with the same process you explained? I have a Misskey account that I don't know if I want to keep and thought I could merge all of them.The screenshot at the start, for aliasing the old account to the new, says "#1 account you're moving from" and has an "Add" button. I infer from that it is possible to direct multiple old accounts to one new one.
Ok, that will be handy, thanks!
Mastodon lets you hide posts in a list from your home timeline. Is there a way to do this in Firefish?
Sorry, I don't have the answer. I haven't really tried lists in Mastodon so far.
Got an invite to the main instance?