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Erica @erica7/1/2023, 11:32 PM

frustrating to see japanese twitter users (mostly) migrate to misskey because as far as i can tell it's a blockchain-based fediverse thing. ~~like it's not even a mastodon fork it's entirely it's own ecosystem so you can't even like, be on a masto instance that follows mstdn or pawoo or whatever~~ It's based on activitypub so you can cross-pollinate a little but I don't see people really doing that, and I expect it to succomb to the same fate pawoo did re: western instances because of Japanese content policies :s

also lowkey the UI for it is insane. this is like looking at a computer terminal from a 2004 capcom game (derogatory)

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@Radionaut7/1/2023, 11:39 PM

the ui looks like one of those browser based mmos that were around everywhere in the 00s

Beowulf!!!@beowulf7/1/2023, 11:39 PM

I don't know about any blockchain stuff, but according to the github it uses ActivityPub, so it should be able to communicate with mastodon servers (following/being followed at least)

edit before I even post this: ah, there it is, web3 sponsor

Erica @erica7/1/2023, 11:43 PM

yeah mask seems to be backing it in some fashion :s

shork @shork7/1/2023, 11:40 PM

afaik Misskey is activitypub, it's cross-compatible with Mastodon to an extent

vibe (cohost hater (real))@vibe7/1/2023, 11:44 PM

moreover there are actively maintained forks of it that are used in the western sides of the internet, such as foundkey and calckey

Misty @dog7/1/2023, 11:41 PM

Following people on Misskey from Mastodon instances works; I follow a few Japanese Misskey users from my Mastodon instance. There's a chance whatever server you're on blocks their servers though :/ A lot of the Japanese fediverse is cut off from the rest of the fediverse by instance blocks

Erica @erica7/1/2023, 11:42 PM

yeah, corrected myself on that but that's also my worry. like it's essentially siloed off twice because of that stuff.

vibe (cohost hater (real))@vibe7/1/2023, 11:42 PM

it's not blockchain-based (AP has nothing to do with blockchain at all) and you can absolutely follow ppl on it from other corners of fediverse. i know bc i totally did, and my instance is fine with it

Violet Rose in The Rain @VioletRoseinTheRain7/1/2023, 11:45 PM

It's like seeing some people I know move to Bluesky instead of here or Mastodon.

Dumpling-chan @LovelyDumpling7/2/2023, 12:44 AM

I don't suppose we're gonna return to the old internet before the age of being dominated by a small handful of social media?

Unfortunately more realistically is everyone will flock to Bluesky or Instagram :(

andi @mcc7/2/2023, 12:08 AM

MissKey is interesting to me because it is the ONE Mastodon server software, as far as I know, that lets you "bring your own domain", like the same way you can have thousands of people who own their own domains but the domains all direct to GMail you can have lots of users connecting to a single server but their usernames all have their own domains. Which also means that you could move servers and no one can tell because your username doesn't change. I don't know how well this works in practice but in theory this fixes like, two fundamental broken things about Mastodon.

But uh… …yeah, that… that interface. Hm.

andi @mcc7/2/2023, 12:10 AM

Ps apologies if u didn't actually want to hear about MissKey lol

Dumpling-chan @LovelyDumpling7/2/2023, 12:47 AM

I actually love video game commuter terminals
shame we can't post images in replies

crobi @crobisaur7/2/2023, 2:17 AM

It looks kinda like an early release of the Line chat app for desktop. It gives me a sad

A cat, a cat, and a cat @chiaki7477/2/2023, 7:34 AM

Yeaaaahhh..... missky lets you put catears on your pfp aaaand, that's about it, I otherwise cannot stand it and following people from other instances is a crapshoot because half the posts friends make don't make it to my home feed when it's not in the local feed. Also the local feed is a veritable minefield of dicey content.

@RippleField27/29/2023, 7:02 AM

I just now discovered misskey and trying to gather information and this is like one of the very few posts I can find even explaining it. is the UI still currently as bad as that screen? all I know is I absolutely love the chaotic energy of the splash page, like some nonsensical fake internet from a futuristic anime (complimentary)