Firefish
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A fun, new, open way to experience social media

I found Firefish which is a better alternative to the standard Mastodon application. It’s compatible with Mastodon and has better features. It allows users to create web pages and the character limit is 3,000 instead of the 500 on Mastodon. It feels like a good limit for the type of site that it is. Plus this means that it can handle long posts from users on customized Mastodon instances.

  • Phil K@lemmy.worldEnglish
    202·
    1 year ago

    I didn’t enjoy firefish, it was buggy and seemed to have a lot of gatekeeping.

    • kobra@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      Agreed, I much prefer Mastodon over firefish. Firefish handles hashtags really strangely and (at least at the time I tried) wouldn’t allow you to even have followed hashtags show up in your timeline.

      • KichaeEnglish
        82·
        1 year ago

        wouldn’t allow you to even have followed hashtags show up in your timeline

        Well, that would be because following hashtags isn’t a feature of Firefish. Antannae are a fundamentally different thing - they’re saved searches.

        • kobra@lemm.eeEnglish
          111·
          1 year ago

          Right, which is exactly what I said I didn’t like about it?

    • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️@7.62x54r.ruOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      What do you mean by gatekeeping?

      I noticed that the interface seemed a bit slow. I toggled and option to reduce animations so hopefully that improves things.

    • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      How does software have gatekeeping? Does a dialog box pop up and say “I’m sorry, you are not cool enough to use this app”?