In case you've been interested in wading into microblogging and didn't feel like Mastodon was your thing, the Lemmy instance you're on might have a *key instance to check out!

I'm posting to your from Sharkey World, Lemmy World's Sharkey instance. However I was surprised to find that Programming Dev has an Iceshrimp instance over at Bytes. Meanwhile I first learned of Blahaj Zone from their Sharkey instance awhile before they spun up their lemmy instance.

One of the cool features of each of these is that even if you're not into microblogging, they also basically have a blogging feature built in alongside it in the form of a Pages feature. Prefer the long form? Write there and then easily turn around and share it with a microblog post.

Are there any other Lemmy instances out there running *key instances? Mention'em in the comments!

@fediverse@lemmy.world

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 16 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Lemmy instances with *key instances!

Huh?

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

You read the post past that sentence?

Edit: for those who don't know, Sharkey, Iceshrimp, Catodon and Firefish are fediverse software that sometimes are referred to as "*key" because they are all forks of the Misskey software.

[–] VeSpectagles@sharkey.world 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

As the other person that replied indicated, *key is shorthand for Misskey and Misskey fork instances like Sharkey/Iceshrimp/etc.

There's a bunch of them and since many of the instances with primarily English or other language (besides Japanese) people on them aren't using Misskey (or any specific fork) it's easier to write *key.

I should have clarified that in the OP, but I hoped the body text would help with that. My bad!

@fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 9 points 14 hours ago

https://sh.itjust.works/post/35485725

This is you right now. Most of us have no idea what Misskey is.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 8 hours ago

I was more commenting on the fact that it's an incomplete sentence. What does it have to do with Lemmy?

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 16 hours ago

Lemmy instances (verb) with *key instances (noun).

Threw me off too.

[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 hours ago

Seems to be this one:
misskey-hub.net

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago

Misskey?