2y ago

CalcKey Officially Rebrands as Firefish

CalcKey adopts a new name, new logo, new site, and new project infrastructure. While the name is somewhat odd, this feels like a really big step forward for the project.

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2y ago

wedistribute.org /2023/07/calckey-is-now-firefish/

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Cute logo, although it sounds like it's related to FireFox somehow.
- Yeah, that's definitely a reaction I saw as well. At least it's not a web browser? 😛
  
  It's an ActivityPub browser, arguably 😅
They may end up rebranding again as there is already software put there using the name.
- Yeah, that's kind of funny. Naming things is hard.
- Have any trademark lawyers weighed in on this? I've only seen speculation.
  It seems more complicated to me because it's actually the name of several fish and not just the name of a company. It's not like they're called Ford Motor Company Social, right? I'm also not sure that the other software out there is similar enough. They have to argue that customers would be confused but is social networking all that similar to a CRM?
I had to Google it to find out what it even is.
- What is it?
  
  Take Mastodon, make it pretty, and add about 1k useful features and settings (Maybe too many?)
  
  It's basically an alternate version of Mastodon, similar to how Kbin and Lemmy both do similar things while being seperate projects, and a fork of another project called Misskey
  
  I’m still not quite sure..
Firefish is very close to the perfect Tumblr replacement, it even has the custom looks for each blog
I highly recommend checking it out, it's a much nicer experience than Mastodon.
- Eh, mastodon has better apps available though. So user experience in that regard differs.
  
  Firefish supports now all apps afaik that are compatible with mastodon. You might just not have access to certain exclusive features of the instance.
  
  Haven’t tried it out yet, but supposedly the newest update makes calckey work with some mastodon clients!

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