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I'm a fan of wafrn (wafrn.net), its a tumblr-like thing.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Misskey. It's not exactly niche, but it has a lot of cool features.

For example:

  • Drive features to reuse your image or other media.
  • Misskey games, so far only have Bubble Game and Go.
  • Groups
  • Antenna, basically subscription for any post with your set of rules.
  • Playful profile decoration, similiar to Discord/Steam.
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Misskey (I use sharkey, a fork of it) is really good. Groups don't federate yet iirc.

Its frontend is extremely slow though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And the search is awfull.

how ever the UI is pretty

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The search doesn't even work on my instance.
Lemmy is the only fediverse software with a good search imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

My experience on Mbin says that the search is pretty good. It might be skewed because I mostly search for magazines, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

lol, tbh yeah.

even on mastodon which is relatively big the search is jst bad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

does mastodon's search even work? Unless a post has a hashtag its near-unindexable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Search on my Akkoma instance works reasonably well. Of course there is no central index, so it can only find what it has federated before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I'm also on Sharkey. It's just more fun that Mastodon. Also feels a touch more queer, in a wonderful way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

In a better world, this (or one of its forks) would have taken off instead of Mastodon. It makes a way better case for itself by its distinct features compared to Mastodon, which is too easy to ignore (by everyday people) as Nerd-Twitter.