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.

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[–] Defaced@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just started using mastadon, is there something wrong with it? Why would I want to switch to firefish?

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Defaced@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, I'm just looking for a twitter replacement so it sounds like mastodon is probably the best option right now for me. I've been happy with it, fedilab is a little confusing so I'm currently using megalodon.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I haven't tried megalodon yet. What do you like/dislike about it?

[–] Defaced@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's performant and smooth on my pixel6a, every mastodon app I've tried is jittery and choppy. The interface is just easy to understand, I'm sure fedilab is fine once you get used to it, but it felt like jumping into the deep end without a life jacket.

[–] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I like Megalodon because I can follow/unfollow hashtags. I don't think that feature exists on the official Mastodon app.

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So FireFish is similar to Tumblr? Because that’s what I’m looking for at the moment.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't really used Tumblr in a while, but that's the comparison I've seen/heard.

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.