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If you're trying to sign up for calckey.social, you may have noticed there's a notice saying that registrations are disabled *above* the registration form. This notice is not accurate.

It is actually a bug, and I've filed it as one in the repo:

codeberg.org/calckey/calckey/i

If you want to join calckey.social, *ignore* that notice and continue with your registration.

Here's a screenshot of the bug in question.

See also: calckey.social/notes/9eegkseedn

@fediversenews

@atomicpoet @fediversenews That is the least of calckey’s page problems.

If that landing page were my first or worse — sole — introduction to the fediverse, I would go running back to twitter even with all its ugliness. That has to the be the most frustrating page I’ve seen in a decade.

I don’t know what calckey is. BUt it says it’s respecting privacy.
The only text that might clue me in is scrolling on the right super fast and I can’t stop the scrolling.
when I finally find a popup, it takes me to a different page where “Users” is selected, but I can’t select “Explore” to find out more — I STILL don’t know what “Calckey” actually is.

I never heard of Calckey before your post right here. And I STILL now, don’t know exactly what Calckey is, even though I am plenty versed in mastodon and the fediverse.

Horrible.

Chris Trottier

@gdiak @godofbiscuits I don't think it's very much like Mastodon at all. We should probably work on explaining this to people who believe "Mastodon is the Fediverse".

@atomicpoet@mastodon.social @gdiak@venera.social @godofbiscuits@sfba.social I agree... Is forgotten to mention chat, pages, channels, groups, etc.

I originally described
#calckey as Twitter for power users, but I would amend that to include some similarities to farcebook.

@Unatributed 👤 ☑ @Chris Trottier @Gio @Jeff Barbose Okay, how about...

#CalcKey is #MissKey for #gaijin?

Or CalcKey is MissKey, but less Japanese?

Or CalcKey is MissKey by the makers of #Akkoma?
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@atomicpoet

Apart from the UI and some features (quotes, markdown, reactions, etc) I don’t see any major difference.

If you want simplicity/minimalism you go for mastodon. If you want more fancy (and more feature) staff you go for calckey

@godofbiscuits