Misskey

🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀 (by syuilo)

Misskey Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to Misskey

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Misskey reviews and mentions

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  • Now, you can embed Mastodon posts in Medium stories
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2023
    on Misskey: https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey/issues/9504

    There is a lot of resistance to the idea. The browser UX for registering protocols is not particularly intuitive. The protocol should not be named after Mastodon because they are defensive of their trademark, and it wouldn't be accurate since the user identifier could be followed from any ActivityPub compatible software.

    If you look at the newer comments on the Mastodon github thread I posted you can see web+ap:// recommended, or apub://

    I think there just needs to be enough collective will to make this happen. Likely another project will need to take the lead because Mastodon team has decided the browser UX is too much of a barrier. Maybe glitch-soc can do a proof of concept.

  • Tumblr-like blogging/microblogging
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 14 Feb 2023
  • Misskey: An Interplanetary Microblogging Platform
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2023
  • Facebook Censored Me for Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2021
    * in case of a mute, it could also be not wanting their federated timeline to be flooded with primarily mastodon.social posts

    Lack of federation between these instances and mastodon.social could be a reason not to pick mastodon.social. (Similar situation applies to mastodon.online btw, which is a spin-off server of m.s.)

    Another reason to pick a different instance could be not wanting to use mainline Mastodon software. For example because you want to run your own instance on limited hardware (Mastodon can get a bit resource intensive), don't like Ruby, miss certain features, don't like the front-end (though alternative external front-ends to Mastodon do exist), or some other reason.

    Personally I am on an instance that runs [Mastodon Glitch Edition, also known as Glitch-Soc](https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/), which is a compatible fork of Mastodon which implements a bunch of nice features such as increased post character count (Mastodon defaults to 500 characters per post, Glitch-Soc supports increasing this in the server settings), Markdown support (though only instances that also support HTML-formatted posts will see your formatting; mainline Mastodon servers will serve a stripped down version of your post instead), and improved support for filters / content warnings / toot collapsing, optional warnings when posting uncaptioned media, and other additional features.

    Another alternative Mastodon fork is [Hometown](https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown) which focuses more on the local timeline (showing posts only from your own instance) with the addition of local-only posts, to nurture a tighter knit community.

    Aside from Mastodon there are other implementations of ActivityPub which can still federate with Mastodon instances, such as [Misskey](https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey), [diaspora*](https://diasporafoundation.org/) (which AFAIK inspired Google Plus back in the day), [Hubzilla](https://hubzilla.org//page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project), [Peertube](https://joinpeertube.org/) (focused on peer-to-peer video distribution), [Friendica](https://friendi.ca/), [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social/), [Socialhome](https://socialhome.network/), [GoToSocial](https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial), [Pixelfed](https://pixelfed.org/) (which started as a sort of federated Instagram alternative) and more. [Fediverse.party](https://fediverse.party/) is a nice way to discover various protocols that make up the bigger Fediverse.

  • Aave Plans To Build “Twitter on Ethereum”
    2 projects | /r/ethereum | 19 Jul 2021
    We already have working decentralized social media. Just take systems based on Activity Pub and have a Federation of servers and communities. Plenty of mature systems like Pleroma, Mastodon, write.as, Misskey to choose from.
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syuilo/misskey is an open source project licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 which is an OSI approved license.

Misskey is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.

The primary programming language of Misskey is TypeScript.

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