#misskey.io

[grimgiblog]

Why you should make a Misskey/Shonk.Social/Mastodon account.

Hi lol. As a trans artist who has been incredibly frustrated with tumblr censoring lgbt content and general transphobia. Eat shit Matt.🔨🚗💥 I wanted to offer a small guide about activitypub servers. Considering Tumblr and Threads wish to integrate with activitypub services.

It truly doesn't matter what instance or server you pick. There are a lot of them that within each individual one hosts thousands of smaller communities. You can also make your own servers and instances!

Other good servers.

Point of the matter is, you can follow anyone from any instance and have them on our dashboard. You can follow someone from mastodon and still use misskey.io Or (eventually) follow someone from tumblr on shonk.social.

Or even make your own instance. The best part is say one of these sites has another CEO meltdown, or they have harmful policies, you can migrate to another instance without losing followers or our posts.

From our experiences Misskey.io is similar to twitter AO3 and deviantart with no censorship regarding artwork (so long as you mark it as explicit). Which is good and bad. That means they allow drawn nsfw lgbt content and sex work. However being a japanese instance they allow drawn loli shota and noncon. Therefore I highly recommend using an instance blocklist and blocking any terms or words in relation. There are hatespeech instances and conspiracy instances of course. And it is always good to be aware of when a server becomes toxic. Luckily with instances and account migration we can pack up and leave. The reason I'm on Misskey currently is because its the biggest server and there are more utilities than shonk such as animated banners, decorations, and community outreach.

Mastodon works but the UI is incredibly bland and uncustomizable. It also feels mostly dead.

Shonk.Social is a fork of Misskey that is a safe lgbt space. It is a very small server currently but the people who code it are incredibly passionate. Their boosts and global timelines are really good ways to keep up to date on other servers.

You've also got custom emojis, lists, channels, antennae.

There's also cookie clicker LOL

But all the same I highly recommend it. If tumblr decides to feature activitypub integration we could eventually follow people from tumblr on any instances without all of the Transphobic ceos and app breaking ads.

[davekat-sucks]

About Misskey.io for those who are making accounts there.

[umsisi]

2023/10/30 Misskey.io合同

[mochlus]

Recent twitter bullshit has prompted one of my friends to finally make an account on a fediverse-connected site (Misskey) so I may finally take that plunge

[tepton]

(村卯:raguchan2::youtube:@murau - 🧑‍🍳🍳 | Misskey.ioから)

[toskarin]

interesting news coming from skeb. it's subject to change, but to summarise my understanding of their plans for spring of this coming year:

artists will no longer be required to have a twitter account linked and instead may opt to link a misskey.io account

clients will only be required to link a discord account at the minimum, although a twitter or misskey.io account is ideal

in short, it seems like yet another large service is moving to phase out its reliance on twitter integration

[fuyaho]

2枚目の参照元です→https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkzHGOLdvsA&list=RDSkzHGOLdvsA

misskey.ioのワンドロのお題にシフランが出ることを夢見ています

今はioでやれる限りシフランとループくんを投稿し続けます！

[nikusitori]

https://misskey.io/notes/9sx35tjppqll037h

[catgirlhell]

hi! about the "learn how it works before you start making assumptions" about the bluesky post and its networks; what assumptions should we be looking out for? that its not twitter and not everyone is going to be connected like on there? your description of federated networks is understandable, but the default domain it seems to have at signup is bluesky's. I feel like most people would be using this, and only people looking for a certain thing and knowingly leaving that "sphere" will know that theyre isolating to a different community.

I'm new to this too and theres very very minimal, well explained things about it online, and youre the only person I've come across who seems to know anything, so if you have more advice to share I'd appreciate it!

as much as I would like to answer this as an authority and really contribute to the nascent understanding of federated instances as an alternative to current social media platforms, the fact of the matter is that im not. i have a basic understanding of the way in which they work and how to use them, and I dont think im the best source of information. this being the case, since i did bring it up and i did get an ask, i'll try to explain the best i can.

the "fediverse" (dont mind the silly name, we know its silly) might best be explained with the similarities to email. Misskey, Mastodon, and others marketing themselves as federated instance platforms are basically like if you took your email account and stapled twitter to it: Misskey/Mastodon are not platforms themselves, so much as they are frameworks for web servers that connect to one another independently and are run by individuals. These frameworks are usually open source, have different alternative forks that offer different additional features/ui elements, and ultimately all connect to one another regardless. but they are not "platforms" like tumblr or twitter or facebook. anyone can make their own federated instance, and what that instance looks like depends on what framework they used to set it up.

Bluesky and Threads are different. Bluesky differs in that it is run on a private protocol-- it runs differently to the protocols used by the aforementioned open source alternatives and currently cannot connect with them. It's still in beta and its too early to call how it will operate. Threads, like Bluesky, is also a private protocol. At current, it merges your information with other Facebook/Meta products (facebook, instagram, etc). Supposedly, these will eventually be able to communicate with the Fediverse at large, but you should keep a great amount of suspicion with them, as both are run by billionaires. Bluesky is the project of the former head of twitter, and Threads obviously belongs to Zuckerburg and Facebook.

If you head about "x platform is homophobic/racist" in reference to the earlier federated instance frameworks, understand this very crucial thing about Mastodon/Misskey/etc:

They are not websites. They do not have established moderation policies and staff dedicated to managing who posts what.

as stated, Masto/Misskey are just server frameworks. Each federated instance using those frameworks is run by individuals on their own private web servers that they either operate themselves or rent out from a company. the largest Misskey instance, Misskey.io, is currently under fire for having homophobic moderation practices. This does not mean that every instance of Misskey is moderated with homophobia in mind, and homophobic moderation tools are not built into the code of Misskey.

As the old guard of web 2.0 crumbles, the internet is changing again. whether we fall back into the ad-friendly hellhole of yesteryear or we enter a new phase of the internet's wild west depends on platform migration patterns and whether or not people develop some pretty basic web and internet literacy that's been lost over the last 20 years as the internet corporatized and users had to learn less and less about how the websites they used work. my explanation here probably has incorrect information and holes in it, but that is because i, myself, do not fully understand the total extent to which the fediverse and federated protocols operate; i, too, am a layman.

that being said, i hope this was helpful to anyone trying to figure this stuff out. i've already carved my own space on a small, invite-only instance with friends, but i've got no plans to move shop until this place really does burn down to the ground. hope that helps. good luck!

[nekobungi]

I am puzzled by the sudden influx of English speaking users to Misskey.io, which until yesterday was a social media that are almost exclusively Japanese. Some even seem to have moved from here. I don't know what's going on but if any of you here would like to follow me over there that's perfectly fine, please visit my profile at Misskey.io!

[koholint]

https://misskey.io/notes/9petpztye9j80he2

[umsisi]

2023/07/31 初出 ポニテ村上さん

2023/08/04 初出 生体サーバー

[just-antithings]

Lots of antis now feel “excluded” that people are dropping twitter and moving to other platforms (mainly misskey.io)

the above mentioned hub is a fediverse based instance which was created by Japanese users who made very clear that the content people will find there can be upsetting or illegal depending on country

idk what the problem is though. They wanted us to leave “their spaces” and complain when we do? It’s like that one “you don’t fit in here” meme

(note: for anyone trying to register on the instance, if you encounter an error it’s because registrations are closed because of a massive influx of new people joining at the same time)

[tepton]

(Ixy（いくしー）@ixy - 星街すいせい | Misskey.ioから)

[c-rowlesdraws]

YOOOO this is a long shot, but is anyone else on Misskey.io?? I made an account after rubbernecking some of the art drama involving it on twitter (lol), and I'm excited to hang out as a polite guest on the Japanese side of the internet, but I'm already running into some minor problems not covered by the site's FAQs or anything I can find on google. Help me look like I know what I'm doing over there!! Thank u.

[fuyaho]

Hello! This is my first post. Thank you for watching.

I'm Japanese, and I earn a living by posting original drawings on FANBOX.

I like drawings of people transforming into animals, and I've been posting 3 pictures every day for over 5 years.

On Twitter（X), I draw pictures of Nanachi and Mitty from Made in Abyss every day.

X：https://x.com/ieie_iep

FANBOX:https://fuyaho.fanbox.cc/

misskey:https://misskey.io/@fuyaho

blog:https://fuyaho.hatenablog.com/