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MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Aug 3, 2023

@brome @[email protected] T/y very much. I made those edits about 30' ago, & have reloaded my tab several times. Many of my Antenna toots do include one or more of my tags... but sadly, many toots continue to be, as far as i can tell, entirely random & undesired. So atm i remain a bit confused.

MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Aug 3, 2023

#FirefishSocialNoobQuestions When creating a new #Deck layout, is there a setting i can use which, for whathever number of columns i've set for an individual deck, evenly distributes them across my tab's width sans-scrollbar by auto-adjusting their widths? Atm i've only achieved my desired appearance by tediously trial-&-erroring various column width pixels til they all fit; eventually i succeed, but it's terribly inefficient. I had thought the "flexible" option should do that, but it seems not to. 🤷‍♀️

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MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Aug 3, 2023

@brome Oh wow, fantastic advice; thanks so much! Off now to edit my list.

Btw, silly question maybe, but HOW did you know that? Is there some excellent How To for #Firefish that explains this level of detail i can use as reference for my myriad current unknowns?

MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Aug 3, 2023

This one just cracked me up. 🤣

https://www.thefarside.com/2023/08/03/4

Hot off the press, the very first edition of the Desert Island Times caused the newspaper to quickly fold. #whimsy

The Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson from Thursday, August 3, 2023 | TheFarSide.com

A cartoon from The Far Side® comic strip by Gary Larson from Thursday, August 3, 2023 | Transcript: NED IS A WHINER

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MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Aug 3, 2023

@ada Thx for replying! Happy to show it [albeit, maybe i'm about to be deeply embarrassed if i've done something cringeingly stoooopid...].

#Firefish #antenna

MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Aug 3, 2023

Each time i look in again on my still-newish #Firefish account, hoping to see some of the disappointing bugs resolved, i'm very quickly saddened again by apparently irrelevant toots appearing in my #followedhashtags #antenna. The picture shows a typical example. I do NOT follow those tags, so why is this toot here in my Antenna?

Then, i wondered if maybe, all this time, i might be fundamentally misunderstanding how to properly use Antennae for following tags. The closest tag i do follow, & whose toots i absolutely do want in this t/l, is #Linux ... by which my intention was that full word, but only that full word, not also that word as part of a longer tag. This pictured toot, https://firefish.social/notes/9hy57g0wn9nfkh0x, does otoh include tag #Linuxulator. Is Firefish's Antenna algorithm looking for all occurrences of my #Linux tag, even if only a fragment of a longer tag? If so, how can i stop it doing that, & make it only search for my literal tags as-is?

Btw, apologies to Vince -- i'm not trying to be mean to your fine toot; tis just a good example of how my Antenna is either incorrectly functioning, or instead my erroneous usage of it. Your toot is lovely, i'm sure! 🤗

Vince (darkain) (@[email protected])

LMAO I just got so pissed off at running Linux utilities under Windows Subsystem for Linux and it throwing nonsensical errors, that I just moved over to FreeBSD's #Linuxulator. ALMOST everything "just worked", except had to recompile one binary natively for #FreeBSD ;) .... And now... I'm considering compiling the entire utility suite natively for FreeBSD and making it a new port...

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MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Jul 31, 2023

@Raven47 No i know, but as i said to you:

Note the url here still contains the old namePS: I'm about to put my Firefish account to sleep for a while, so if you wish more tooting to me, pls also send it to my Masto account; @MsDropbear42 otherwise it might be weeks+ before i see it.

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MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Jul 31, 2023

@Raven47 Afaik, they just decided to rebrand. Note the url here still contains the old name... https://joinfirefish.org/blog/en/calckey/

Firefish

A fun, new, open way to experience social media

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MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Jul 31, 2023

For reasons summarised in my OP, til further notice i'm now reverting to Masto as my daily client [albeit definitely still retaining this shiny new Firefish Instance account, just not actively using it nor even looking at it on a daily basis]. In the brief time i've had this account, various peeps have been kind enough to #Follow me here [are you all masochists or something ? 😜]. If you somehow, incomprehensibly, still wish to keep up with my meandering moronic musings & banal baleful bleatings, fyi fwiw, my active Masto account is @MsDropbear42. See you on t'other side... or not 🤭

#FirefishSocialNoobQuestions #FirefishVsMastodon #SlowMode #Firefish

MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Jul 31, 2023

EDITED | For reasons idk, my initial attempts to send this toot when i first wrote it a couple of hours ago, repeatedly failed with an incomprehensible error msg. Eventually i had to delete all my CW text, replace it with just "tbc", at which point it did Send. Then, i edited it, & replaced "tbc" with my original CW. That also Sent ok... or so i thought. Just now, viewing it from Masto, only the first temp edited version has federated there, not the corrected update; wtf? Hoping this umpteenth attempt now might work...?

Nope! Getting cranky now. @MsDropbear42

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Firefish's GUI & hugely granular Settings are a pretty different beast from #Mastodon, so i've had heaps of learning, setting up, fiddling & finessing to do. I've reached a point now where it's seriously good, in many ways a far better UX than in Masto... & yet sadly, i believe that for now i need to leave it alone for a while & return to Mastodon as my daily socials client.

Fwiw, self-notes i've just scribbled down for my later reference.

1. Atm impossible to stop timelines auto-updating [no Slow Mode like in Masto], & this is stressful. Albeit they seem not to AU when already scrolled down from the top, phew, but if i'm reading the top toot the t/l can & does reload sans-warning & displace my toot being read by however many new toots just arrived. This is hugely discombobulating!

2. Atm no native way to globally stop Boosts appearing in my Home timeline [in Masto this is simple via one click]. I had to use the clumsy inefficient workaround of manually muting boosts for each individual account i Follow.

3. The #Firefish paradigm afaict is fundamentally different to Masto in that for the latter, my Home t/l remains useful even if i Follow no other accounts, coz it's populated with my Followed Hashtags plus any Followed accounts. Given my strong preference is to follow myriad tags, but minimal accounts, that's great for me. Otoh in Firefish the Home t/l seems to be exclusively for toots from accounts i follow, ergo, if i choose to follow nobody, this t/l is empty.

4. As said, Followed Hashtags do not appear in my Home timeline. I had to create an Antenna for them, then display it as a parallel timeline. This causes me cognitive overload & partially duplicated reading work.

5. This one might be The Killer though. There's an official Bug re Antennas, whereby they only show a subset of the targets, but then repeat all these over & over as one scrolls down that timeline.

It's a great pity, not only that maybe the past 36 hrs might have been a waste of time & effort, but much more importantly, IMO Firefish in many ways is already a superior* UX than Masto... but its fatal flaws atm seem a showstopper for my needs. I'll keep the tab pinned but unloaded, & keep checking in every few weeks to see if improvements might have happened.

* eg, i love these aspects [non-exhaustive list]:

- 4000-char toots is great, compared to my current Masto's 1024. Furthermore, Firefish's #ContentWarning #CW equivalent allows one to "cheat", coz to my surprise & unlike Masto, text here is not counted for the total toot-characters used. Yay!
- The toot-compose windowlet in Firefish is substantially nicer than Masto, not least for its excellent Preview tool.
- The UI is super-impressively user-reconfigurable, making Masto feel positively Olde Worlde in comparison.
- Firefish's Search tool is truly powerful, vs Masto's highly limited tags search.
- The granularity of Firefish's Settings is astoundingly impressive & useful, so for a details-geek like me [eg, my love of #ArchLinux & #KDEPlasma, heehee], this is almost euphoric.
- Without the User needing to go to any external CSS etc hassle, Firefish's UI is already subjectively gorgeous ootb, via its plethora of native Themes. #FirefishSocialNoobQuestions #FirefishVsMastodon #SlowMode

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