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New wave of Mastodon users thanks to Elon Musk floating around the idea of charging everyone for Twitter
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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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Thanks for posting this. It's hard not to become the "but muh firefish" guy every time a thread like this pops up.
Solves nearly every complaint I've seen about the Mastodon interface, has features I haven't even seen folks ask for (I like the "antennas" feature a lot), federated with Mastodon, and will guide you through importing everyone you follow or who follows you - literally migrating your Mastodon account over in just a couple clicks.
I'm not anti-Mastodon whatsoever, but for the folks who find it klunky, Firefish is the answer for sure.
For the uninitiated, Firefish's antennae are saved searches, where you can specify lists of keywords and users and come back to them over and over again. It's similar to Mastodon's hashtag follow feature, only more flexible. Though, IIRC, it doesn't add the search results to your home feed; it keeps them separate, and undiluted.
From an administrator's point of view, Firefish's Recommended timeline is super cool, and is similar to Akkoma's 'bubble' feature. It lets you specify a list of other federated servers to display posts from, creating a kind of "super-local" timeline. It's the kind of thing I'd love to see in Lemmy and kbin.