Hey everyone,
Wow, what a wild ride, huh? From those first brainstorming sessions that sparked Calckey, to the epic journey that brings us here today, rebranding as Firefish - I've gotta say, I'm seriously blown away.
One year ago, Calckey was just my side project, after being a Misskey contributor for a while. But when y'all jumped on board, you made it so much more. You transformed it from my dream to our reality.
Firefish isn't just a cool name. It's everything we've been working towards. It's late nights, strong coffee, wild ideas, laughs, and even the occasional tears. It's our little space on the web where we're constantly pushing for the next big thing, and always looking out for one another.
So here we are, at the start of something new. Firefish is more than just a rebrand - it's a celebration. A celebration of you, me, and us. It's a tribute to the amazing community we've built together. Firefish is all of YOU.
We put together video that I feel really gets to the heart of Firefish. We wanted to show you guys what this whole journey has meant to us, and how excited we are to be taking this next step together.
Before I go, I just want to say a big, massive, thank you. Thank you to all the patrons who supported this. Thank you to @blackspike@mastodon.cloud for the absolutely stunning logo. Thank you @angelolz for the beautiful trailer. Thank you to our development team who's made some amazing strides. And thank you all for believing in this wild idea, thank you for your support, and thank you for being part of the coolest community on the web. You guys are the real backbone of all this.
Here's to the next chapter of our journey as Firefish. Exciting times ahead, and I can't wait to see where we go from here!
Posts will shortly follow with release notes, roadmaps, technical details, migration plans. I'll keep this thread updated.
Much love,
Kainoa
https://joinfirefish.org/
@firefish@fedi.software 📎
Calckey is making some big moves today, first rebranding as Firefish with a new logo, resetting their version to 1.0, and adding some interesting new features. As a Fediverse first, all Calckey.social users will be migrated to Firefish.social automatically. Not sure how that last bit will work, but we will find out soon!
Is this primarily to help indicate that it’s no longer a simple fork of Misskey, or…?
It seemed to me like Calckey was only just getting some traction & recognition under the original name, so maybe it’s better to do this now before it had fully set in, but neither this post nor the site’s blog post make it entirely clear why the name change (or why Firefish in general but that’s neither here nor there tbh).
tbf the site seems to just be a find+replace of the Calckey site. i assume they’re working on more important things (like migrating calckey.social to firefish.social, which is gonna be difficult considering activitypub’s fragileness) before fixing up the site.
Is this primarily to help indicate that it’s no longer a simple fork of Misskey, or…?
It seemed to me like Calckey was only just getting some traction & recognition under the original name, so maybe it’s better to do this now before it had fully set in, but neither this post nor the site’s blog post make it entirely clear why the name change (or why Firefish in general but that’s neither here nor there tbh).
tbf the site seems to just be a find+replace of the Calckey site. i assume they’re working on more important things (like migrating calckey.social to firefish.social, which is gonna be difficult considering activitypub’s fragileness) before fixing up the site.