Misskey is Japanese microblogging software, but it's unlike other microblogging software like Mastodon that more closely mirrors the design and features of Twitter. Instead it, and thus its forks (e.g. Sharkey/Iceshrimp), have a distinct design and variety of features unique to it.

A couple of which are Antennas (custom feeds) and Pages (blogging). With its approach to custom feeds, you make a couple lists of keywords to show posts including specific terms and filter out those including other terms.

E.g. a feed looking for cute cats might have an include list of the words cats/kittens and an exclude/filter list of the terms dogs/puppies/etc.

Then there's Pages, which are relatively straightforward. Basically they're blog posts or any longer form post where you might want to play with more formatting options.

Alongside these there are several other features, like custom themes, Channels (sort of like local-only groups/threads), and more that I'm less familiar with. In any event, Misskey and its forks are rather different from some of the other microblogging stuff you may have seen before, so I encourage checking them out!

This should better help follow my last post, where I highlighted a few instances people using Lemmy might be interested in. This comment hit the nail on the head, so I made this to try to correct for that a little.

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[–] elena@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

For people interested in seeing a *key software in action, I’ve written a blog post about Sharkey in December: https://news.elenarossini.com/sharkey-a-fediverse-project-that-is-beautiful-inside-out/

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

LMK when they add the ability to follow hashtags.

Also I hate when sites make it to where you can't see anything until after you create an account.

[–] VeSpectagles@sharkey.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Antennas/custom feeds are a more powerful version of following tags tbh, as you can put hashtags in the included words.

However I agree, I also dislike when sites make it where you can't see stuff until you sign up, or just make it difficult (as is the case here). If you go to many of these instances and add /explore after the instance name, e.g. sharkey.world/explore, you can get a better look before signing up.

Figured that out from my stubborn curiosity.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't really matter how "powerful" they are when they're in a separate feed.

[–] VeSpectagles@sharkey.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

How so? That hasn't seemed to be much of a negative for Bluesky, and its default interface doesn't have a deck/column view like Misskey and its forks.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 20 hours ago

How so?

Because it's annoying. I don't want to go back and forth across different feeds. I just want one.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone up to date on the Iceshrimp .NET rewrite? It looks like it's sort of up and running from the GitHub page, but they don't run a flagship instance themselves. Is there any instance up and running it at the moment?

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 hours ago

That rewrite just for the sake of using .net is insane