@ReignOfRaining@transfem.social well as far as i remember, there was a big discussion around misskey, when they implemented ip logging and some ai stuff. a lot of the western hosters didnt like that. as a result foundkey and calckey forked from misskey. foundkey focused on making it stable small changes with a bunch of patches (you can ask @johann150@genau.qwertqwefsday.eu about its history and stuff). and calckey added a bunch of features. as time goes on, calckey community was getting quite big and dedicated so they renamed the project to firefish. foundkey later went to maintanence only because of lack of contribution and some other stuff i dont want to get into. firefish did have its own drama (project owner being afk for a while and it made the community very uneasy) which lead to several forks (iceshrimp, sharkey and some others). idk who on fedi could give you a better insight on firefish history