Yeah. The *key instances are fun to use. It doesn’t feel like using a business email.
Well put ha ha
Sharkey is great. There is even a nice way to integrate it with a Prosody XMPP server.
I thought Calkey went belly up, so to speak.
Misskey is an unprecedented forking party. Sharkey is one of the many forks. Maintained by the Blåhaj folks, if I’m not mistaken.
Iceshrimp is another one to watch. Specifically Iceshrimp-NET, a full rewrite to fix the performance issues that probably play some role in why these forks often meet such sad ends.
It’s not so much the performance issues that kill the projects – instances with hundreds to a couple thousand users are very, very healthy for the fediverse – it’s that the codebase is…
Well, Misskey is a 10-year-old solo development project that’s been cancelled at least once by the dev due to burnout, with documentation partially in broken english, and the rest in Japanese. Working with it is… yeah…
