Jerry on PieFed
@Jerry@feddit.online  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Curious. Why did someone think it necessary to do sharkey and iceshrimp. What is wrong with Misskey?

I'm curious about people's thoughts around Misskey and its forked projects.

  1. Why is Misskey so popular in Asia, but not used much in the west? Why do you think the preferences are so different between the regions?
  2. What is wrong with Misskey that some people are willing to invest their time and money on separate forks (IceShrimp, Sharkey). What's the difference between the forks and the originals?
  3. Does anyone have experience running any of these? Do they have any downsides like, for example, a database that grows unreasonably fast or that requires too many resources?
aliceif
@aliceif@mkultra.x27.one  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@Jerry@feddit.online
for 3: I have been running Misskey for 1.5 years now (basically a single user ish server) and it's been pretty hassle-free so far. One of my friends has for over 5 years, her server has a bunch of users even.

I use the lowest ARM tier at Hetzner and apart from having to watch storage usage (which can be mitigated by using the usual kinds of S3-compatible storage or by changing the caching settings) there's nothing concerning there so far?

2: There are definitely differences in features. Said features are mostly gimmicks (I don't get the point of boost-with-changed-visibility for example) but a main missing feature of original Misskey is the complete lack of support for edits, both sending , the latter is honestly a hassle at times.
But there are also hangups about misskey.io that people have - in a way the forks serve to launder reputation. Not a fan of it, but it's an aspect that exists.

1: See 2, also Misskey has been a bit neglectful of maintaining the English translations of their Docs since the switch to a new Website project.
Plus, Sharkey has a branding and marketing advantage - there is a stereotype of Sharkey users being a bit like Arch Linux users ... and there's the whole ​:blahaj:​ thing.
aliceif
@aliceif@mkultra.x27.one  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@Jerry@feddit.online since apparently whatever reddit-ass platform this was posted at eats markdown formatted text, allow me to repeat:

Misskey can not receive edits. If someone edits a post, that edit will never get reflected on Misskey's side. This can be a real hassle and is in my eyes the main reason not to recommend Misskey to people. I still think Misskey is better than most alternatives - especially Mastodon and GoToSocial - but it's an undeniable downside.
Snoopy
@Snoopy@piefed.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

I don't know about Misskey and haven't the opportunity to test it.

I looked for a french speaking instance that doesn't use mastodon because i disliked mastodon's UI. That french speaking instance was using Firefish.

Then Firefish development stopped and the instance moved to iceshrimp. And then, they started rewritting it into #C because it is the dev main language. (Iceshrimp.net)

If i'm not wrong, as one of its dev know jlai.lu that run lemmy, they will add support of Lemmy and PieFed (because i share lot information about PieFed on jlai.lu and its matrix room)

It is for you @AntoineD@kwak.cab :)
schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
@schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Misskey is basically fine, but it's very oriented to it's creator's home country.

If you can use it cool, but if you can't they're not going to fix it for you.

Perfectly sane response, IMO.

The other forks you mention are because Firefish's devleoper decided to destroy his project, and vanish. And, of course, since that's not enough, he then dumped maintenance on someone who didn't really want maintenance responsibilities, and they completely killed the project.

So, those two are the "western" forks of Misskey, basically.