Technology @lemmy.world 101 @reddthat.com 4 mo. ago

Goodbye FireFish.

**Announcement: Firefish will enter maintenance mode** For those who have been supporting Firefish and me, I can’t thank you enough. But today, I have to make an announcement of my very difficult decision: As of today’s release, Firefish will enter maintenance mode and reach end-of-support at the e...

Edit: Removed the photos due to lemmy crawler displaying the toot.

Fediverse @lemmy.world MHLoppy @fedia.io 4 mo. ago

Firefish is entering maintenance mode

info.firefish.dev /notes/9xsukr38m3komd63

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Damn shame, tbh. Out of all of them I really like the visuals and vibe of Firefish.
- Yeah it looked promising. Also a shame I never got to try it properly because it didn’t work for me from the start. Home timeline never loaded and errored out and I never got any kind of support response so gave up on it. Oh well.
  
  (Also, hi Harry in the wilds of Lemmy. 👋😂)
  
  Yeah it had a pretty rough ride at the start but when it worked, it was really nice tbh.
  
  Also:
That was quick
- Sounds like my ex.
  
  Gotta make the most of it, go back for seconds, thirds...
  
  Self-burn, those are rare
Glad I held back from suggesting Firefish for my wife. I've been slowly trying to convince her to jump to the fediverse for microblogging and figured to have her try Firefish simply because it's prettier than Mastodon. Guess it's back to ol' Mastodon.
- You can suggest Akkoma to her if you want a Mastodon alternative.
  
  Thanks! I'll check it out.
- Does anyone know if Mastodon have that "multiple frontends" thing Lemmy has?
  
  There are some. Mastodon has a lot of garbagey nonsense, but they do at least have a proper API which will let you make a non-shit front end if you wanted.
  
  Have you checked out Tangerine UI
  https://github.com/nileane/TangerineUI-for-Mastodon
  
  there's Phanpy, Ełk, Tangerine, Pinafore, and Mangan when it comes to web apps. and apart from that there's a huge offering of mobile and desktop clients.
- Sharkey might also be worth a look.
RIP. Was on firefish a few months but saw the writing on the wall back then and jumped ship. In retrospect, probably the 3rd or 4th federated product I've been a user of that flamed out. WATTBA
- weird, ive never seen that acronym before to my knowledge, and yet still knew what it stood for. WATTBA!
For those who don't know there is https://misskey-hub.net/en/
- Did the Misskey network not advise against e.g. EU people signing up because of legal reasons like GPDR? Anyway, Iceshrimp works very much as intended and has active development so that could be an alternative for some people (have no experience with Sharkey).
  
  I think that was specifically for misskey.io because some western users were breaking some sort of law. I never quite figured out the details. Misskey.io still doesn't let any IP from outside the China-Japan-Korea circle sign up. But there are some instances, that do, and some English language instances there as well.
  
  Also, misskey and the Japanese side of fedi, tend to tolerate "loli" content to a degree that other side doesn't. My main account is on a misskey server and I love it.
I tried Firefish but at no point in time did it ever actually work well. 85% of the content just wouldn’t load.
- It did when it was still called Calckey, but around the time of the rebranding their main server got into issues (Kainoa, the previous maintainer, was messing around with it to improve performance but that just broke things).
I am especially sad because firefish was the first fedi project that I donated to. A lot of people had problems with firefish, but the server I was on was absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, they server maintainers foresaw the demise of the software and decided to shut down early this year, on March.
Firefish users after this: 📉📉📉

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