Sharkey has mastoapi support.

Yes, as I said

And Fediverse instances are similar. But that only works when you know what a car actually is.

If you’re referring to Lemmy/PieFed, Mastodon, and the like, well, people know about those because there was a huge amount of publicity about those services within the tech community that explained exactly what they were, and the benefits, especially in places like Reddit and twitter.

It was more like convincing people who drove cars and rode motorcycles to go electric.

ugh, i can't read.

For now, Catodon is a part of the Threadiverse at the same degree as Mastodon. At this moment it allows following/subscribing a community only.

To my knowledge, Catodon was started by @panos@catodon.rocks, who for the longest time was a Firefish advocate, but was disappointed by the bait and switch pulled by those devs.

With the advent of AI, Panos is taking it upon himself to fork Firefish and build the social media experience he wanted all long.

Can't really argue with that <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://activitypub.space/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f604.png?v=f0fd1f2265e" title="" />

Hey folks, just discovered this thread thanks to @julian@activitypub.space 's mention above!

To be more accurate, I was in the Firefish core team, I started Catodon with another Firefish dev when Firefish was being abandoned, but that dev quickly lost interest. Since then (a couple of years ago now) I've been trying to work with a dev but had no luck. So yeah, I recently started experimenting with LLMs and it went much better than I expected - you have to be careful with some things, but it's doable.

So Catodon (which was first announced as a Firefish fork in 2023) finally had its first stable release in March, and I intend to continue working on it. It's based on Sharkey, but I've also ported some Firefish features, and so far I've added a Direct Messages chat-like page, an RSS timeline and a LOT more smaller features, and my next goal is implementing Lemmy/Piefed/NodeBB compatible forums (which I wanted to do -and had suggested- since I was in Firefish).

If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer, and thank you for taking interest in my project! Hope to join the threadiverse with my main account very soon - the goal is within April.

Ok, so I give you credit for trying but you didn’t actually explain:

• how is this different from mastodon?
• WHAT SPECIFIC FEATURES ARE DIFFERENT FROM MASTODON?
• how, SPECIFICALLY, is it different from Mastodon?
• IN WHAT WAY, does it function differently than Mastodon?

- WHY SHOULD ANYONE GIVE A SHIT?

Interpersonal drama is something that nobody cares about. Put that shit on your Tumblr so no one can read it.

@homes@piefed.world if you want to use Mastodon, you are very welcome to just do that. I never liked it, never used it, it always felt to me like an outdated Twitter. I respect everything they've accomplished, of course, but that doesn't mean I want to use the software

Misskey is probably the second biggest fedi microblogging platform, and has a very different approach, less strict, more fun, and with a much better looking interface. It also has emoji reactions, it has had quotes since forever (which Mastodon added very recently), there's a ton of things that are different, another one is that Mastodon has a 500 character/post limit while Catodon has 5000 etc.

There's wonderful ecosystem in fedi, and it would be a shame if we lost that pluralism and only use one or two platforms. Another thing that is obviously different (or will be very soon), is what is described in this topic. The reason that you made your post from a Piefed account, and not a Mastodon one

Usually the UI, character limit per post (mastodon is 500, misskey-like tend to be 5000) and reactions - misskey lets instances create custom reactions, like those you can see on discord servers

Doesn't Mbin also support Mastodon?

On Lemmy/Piefed I've only ever subscribed to communities.

Lemmy has comically bad integartion with Mastodon. I tried to make a template with some basic rules to only post once, but this approach was no where near close to being viable.

Indeed, Mbin allows following Mastodon et co. accounts

@artyom@piefed.social I'm also using a vpn regularly though with no issue. If it persists and if you have the time, I'd appreciate a dm so I can investigate this further, thanks!

Any way to customize the layout? I'd rather to not have rounded corners on everything.

@staden_@pawb.social sure, in Settings > Preferences > Other you have three options, Catodon, Misskey and Sharkey styles, with Sharkey being the more squared one (and Catodon the roundest one). You can also change themes or create your own.

Oh, nice. Thank you!

https://lemmy.world/post/45381392

@panos@community.nodebb.org Was not able to resolve the post, but I don't think it's your fault, lemmy.world turned on CF bot protection and it's blocking me

@julian@activitypub.space ugh - I can fetch it from this NodeBB server though by using the original url! I gave the url through lemmy.world above. https://community.nodebb.org/topic/439c1e92-64f5-41ae-8dd4-24d763313149/hello-world-from-catodon?_=1775733822991