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   Phillip Jordan :verify: (phillip@social.phillipjordan.com)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 09:32:16 JST Phillip Jordan :verify:

   I have a free AWS account for a year (well 11 months now) and thinking about spinning up a small #Calckey instance, limited to 30 - 40 people to use as a 2nd or test account to have things such as QTs and a cuter UI. I have a domain name and e'erything but also do I want that responsibility?! LOL #2023Thoughts

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     Phillip Jordan :verify: (phillip@social.phillipjordan.com)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 09:32:06 JST Phillip Jordan :verify:

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     • Mihailik ?????‍♀️???

     @486timetable@mstdn.social
     I don't look at this as you bad mouthing it at all. One thing about software is that it's not going to appeal to everyone. They're going to be some things that people love, some things that people overlook, and some things that are just plain old deal breakers.
     
     Like, I agree with you that there are too many timelines! But in my use case because I am a single user instance, that is a thing that I ignore. But I can see how it can be a lot with more people on an instance.
     
     I appreciate how you explained the issues. And I think this is something we should be discussing as the Fediverse gets larger. I do appreciate that the maintainer of Calckey has been open to feedback.
     
     I think my original idea behind this was to encourage people to explore as Mastodon is not the Fediverse and there are some pretty cool options out there.
     
     But for real though, thanks for bringing up some extremely valid points! This post may help other people look more into the software of the instances they choose based on what features are important to them. ??:fist_bump:

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     Mihailik ?????‍♀️??? (486timetable@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 09:32:12 JST Mihailik ?????‍♀️???

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     @phillip

     It's so beautiful, from page transitions to every little tag and icon ?

     But somehow... in non human compatible way. Like an orchid in the depth of dangerous Amazon jungle.

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     Mihailik ?????‍♀️??? (486timetable@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 09:32:13 JST Mihailik ?????‍♀️???

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     @phillip

     Mastodon already have like 3 too many timelines, and CalcKey adds another couple.

     Name tags are bizarrely massive, dwarfing toot text.

     Visual linking of long threads is thoughtful, and nice to look at, but doesn't help to see who talks to whom. Again, Mastodon is bad but this doesn't help.

     Quote tweets are done in proprietary way, not compatible with QTs outside of CalcKey.

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     Mihailik ?????‍♀️??? (486timetable@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 09:32:14 JST Mihailik ?????‍♀️???

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     @phillip

     I've tried #CalcKey as a user, and though UI is very very pretty, the UX is not good.

     I don't want to badmouth it, cause clearly people put much love in it, and it shows.

     But really, too much counter-intuitive noise. It is slightly less usable than the standard Mastodon. Slightly more effort and more friction in subtle ways.

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     ThatOneCalculator :calcdumpy: :calckey: (thatonecalculator@stop.voring.me)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 09:33:19 JST ThatOneCalculator :calcdumpy: :calckey:

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     • Mihailik ?????‍♀️???

     @486timetable@mstdn.social @phillip@social.phillipjordan.com
     
     1. we're working on better tag ui
     
     2. QTs not proprietary in any way... they work perfectly with with Mk/Akko/Glitch/Fedibird instances ?

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     ThatOneCalculator :calcdumpy: :calckey: (thatonecalculator@stop.voring.me)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 09:39:43 JST ThatOneCalculator :calcdumpy: :calckey:

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     • Mihailik ?????‍♀️???

     @486timetable@mstdn.social @phillip@social.phillipjordan.com on that part about quotes -- we're actually the least proprietary since unlike misskey we support 3 different quote formats: _misskey_quote, quoteUrl, and quoteUri (misskey doesn't support quoteUri)

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     Mihailik ?????‍♀️??? (486timetable@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 17:43:48 JST Mihailik ?????‍♀️???

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     • Cleo?️‍⚧️?️‍?:AFD: :bst:

     @cleo @thatonecalculator @phillip

     Thanks a lot for all the clarifications.

     This is fantastic, and drastic difference to Mastodon for once.

     With this approach your platform has big chance of becoming in ActivityPub what Ubuntu is for Linux.

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     Cleo?️‍⚧️?️‍?:AFD: :bst: (cleo@bz.pawdev.me)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 17:43:49 JST Cleo?️‍⚧️?️‍?:AFD: :bst:

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     • Mihailik ?????‍♀️???

     @thatonecalculator@stop.voring.me @486timetable@mstdn.social @phillip@social.phillipjordan.com + we work on reworking it in a way that its actually better federated than misskey (and will work with akkoma to have it upstreamed there), there can be many things said negatively about us without asking us but we will be here to correct as too many people make assumptions and talk about them like facts :/