• SpringMango
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    131 year ago

    Can anyone ELI5 what the difference is between Mastodon and Firefish? Are they basically the same but a different instance similar to sh.itjust.works vs lemmy.world?

    • @simple@lemm.ee
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      151 year ago

      It’s sort of like the difference between Lemmy and Kbin, they’re different websites that share the same concept and can communicate with one another.

      • @ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
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        101 year ago

        Yep! And they have different styling & feature sets that some may prefer, like Firefish has full text search & quoting posts unlike Mastodon for a super basic yet big difference.

        There’s also a bunch of other features I haven’t dug into much that are interesting, like “antennae” for following words/hashtags and widgets for a variety of things. I don’t know how well they all work, but overall it’s aiming to be much more robust than Mastodon.