Which do you think is the better microblogging platform? Why?
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IceShrimp ! UI and features are much more modern than Mastodon
Although Mastodon plus web client phanpy.social is arguably even more modern. But I encourage supporting smaller projects such as Iceshrimp!
Personally, I’m a huge fan of glitch-soc (Mastodon fork). I previously used CalcKey and HajKey but never IceShrimp so maybe the Misskey forks are onto something.
For me it came down to a simple physical limitations that some interfaces show too much information at once and it’s mentally overwhelming. This is a highly specific issue, hence why I just switched to glitch instead of trying to make a Misskey forks that fits my needs.
In terms of feature-set and “coolness” I have to give it to the Misskey forks. Though I’ve never tried Akkoma so IDK what it feels like. The features out of CalcKey were pretty awesome and I kinda wish I could use an instance with those features.
I’m a pretty specific case where my “daily driver” per se is out of accessibility reasons and not feature set. I adore the features of CalcKey but I have to use a simpler system like Mastodon. And luckily the glitch-soc instance I’m on is running a custom fork with additional features like emoji reacts and such. So it is pretty far away from “vanilla Mastodon”
one of the misskey forks. imo “vanilla” misskey is lacking a fair bit of essential stuff (post editing being a giant one)
the most interesting ones to watch for now are iceshrimp (misskey v12 hardfork based on an early version of firefish, mainly focused on backend tech work compared to new features) and sharkey (misskey ”v13” softfork, aimed at qol changes and other feature work while keeping up to date with misskey itself)
akkoma is alright if you need something light on resources but I personally can’t get used to it’s interface
and mastodon is just… too bland in comparison to both
Why iceshrimp over firefish?
I personally find the development to be more “sensible”. firefish bungled up their flagship with a (imo) failed transition to scylladb and hasn’t been doing much of importance since then (they changed the boost icon to a rocket though!)
compared to that, iceshrimp rewrote their mastodon api compatibility layer to the point where it may be the most compliant one among misskey forks, uncovered several perf bottlenecks (one really big one related to word mutes since fedia migrated over), fixed the http signature security vuln ahead of firefish (and provided the patch to them, which they didn’t put in a stable release for something like two days even after merging)
quite a lot of firefish instances seem to be migrating over to sharkey for similar performance and stability reasons, but if you like the firefish UI/UX compared to the “classic” misskey one (or want a smoother migration path from firefish that doesn’t involve a major version bump) then iceshrimp is the one to check out imo
mastodon or hajkey
