Did you know? Lemmy instances with *key instances!

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

  • Malta Soron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Does Missket connect with Bluesky? Some of my friends moved over there, but I don’t like using Bluesky itself.

    I checked out some instances and it seems that most have a really specific user base. Are there more general instances like .world?

    • caos@feddit.orgEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Is this like Tumblr or something?

      I think Misskey and its forks are among the Fediverse services that are not modelled on a specific commercial platform, but have created something completely their own.

      The forks differ in details (see comparison), but the user experience is relatively similar.

  • caos@anonsys.net
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    23 hours ago

    @VeSpectagles I wouldn’t make myself dependent on whether the *key instance is by the same admins as the lemmy instance. The *key softwares are generally recommended if you want a lot of functions and a modern interface. I particularly like the Antennas / News Pickers, with which the content can be structured very well according to your own search terms (a kind of topic-specific timelines). The interaction with Lemmy also works well.
    There is an instance list for #Sharkey and #Iceshrimp instances here

    • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
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      22 hours ago

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

      Threw me off too.

    • VeSpectagles@sharkey.worldOP
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      23 hours ago

      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

    • Microw@lemm.eeEnglish
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      23 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.