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.
@fediversenews
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.
This is another massive difference between #Calckey and Mastodon.
Calckey has a Drive!
That’s right, a cloud storage feature! You can store whatever you want there: photos, music, documents, Zip files, etc.
Who needs Dropbox or Onedrive when you have Calckey?
As you can see in this screenshot, I’m storing diverse media.
Pages! That’s another big difference between #Calckey and Mastodon.
That’s right, anyone can make a webpage using Calckey. This page does formats text, embeds images, and allows you to express yourself as you choose.
Here’s an example of a Calckey page made by @youronlyone:
https://calckey.social/@youronlyone/pages/calckey-faq
Also see screenshot.