Today is the day I talk about what #Calckey is and what it does. 🧵
In this thread, I will explore what I believe to be the most important features of Calckey.
SPOILER ALERT: While Calckey focuses on microblogging, that’s where its similarities with #Mastodon (and #Twitter) end.
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Here’s a look at #Calckey in mobile mode.
The top displays different feeds.
The bottom has a navbar with a hamburger menu, home, notifications, chat, and widgets.
This can be installed as a progressive web app to your phone by “adding to Home screeen” when you visit a Calckey site.
So far, so good. You see #Calckey’s timeline for microblogging.
Let’s now look at notifications.
Notifications can be displayed for
* All
* Unread
* Mentions
* Direct mentions
You can also filter your notifications by:
* New followers
* Boosts
* Quotes
* Reactions
* And many more!
Here’s a screenshot what the notification nav bar looks like in mobile mode.
The next prominent feature of #Calckey is chat.
Now I can’t show you this exactly because that’s private 😉
However, what’s important to know is that this is distinct from Mastodon DMs, it’s isolated from the main feed, and there’s no mistaking chats for status updates.
This looks like a chat app.
Yet another killer aspect of #Calckey is the Explore section. This is for content discovery – finding people (“Users”) to follow and posts that are gaining traction (“Featured”).
Let’s focused on the Users aspect of Explore. It helps you find users according to:
* Pinned (a.k.a., recommended)
* Popular
* Recently Active
* Newly Joined Users
There’s all sorts of people to follow through the Explore section of Calckey
The “Featured” portion of Explore shows the most popular posts divided into two options:
* Local: what’s popular on your local #Calckey server
* Remote: what’s popular across the Fediverse
This is excellent for finding stuff that already has lots of conversation so you can join in.
In this post, you may have noticed lots of emoji reactions. Interestingly, some of these emojis are animated too.
To many people, this is the most compelling reason to use Calckey as this is a feature that’s unsupported by Mastodon or Twitter.
Like Twitter and Mastodon, #Calckey supports bookmarks. These are a private means to save posts to review at a later date.
Bookmarks arre easily accessible through the navbar.
If you like Facebook Groups, #Calckey has something similar. They are called “Channels”.
Currently, they are localized to each Calckey server, but there are plans to federate them across the Fediverse.
Posts to channels can be broadcast across the Fediverse.
This is one big difference between Calckey and Mastodon.
Here’s a “Music Recommendations” channel on https://calckey.social.
Let’s now talk about search on #Calckey.
To be bluntly honest, Fediverse search needs a lot of work. I don’t think one server software nails it yet.
However, unlike Mastodon, Calckey allows you to search across the Fediverse without need of hashtags (or for you to have interacted with the post previously).
This makes search a lot more extensible than on Mastodon.
Click this link to see it in action:
https://calckey.social/search?q=notifications
Also see screenshot.