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1. Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 23:48:56 UTC Chris Trottier

   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

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 23:49:08 UTC Chris Trottier

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     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

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 23:49:09 UTC Chris Trottier

     in reply to

     Let's first take a look at what #Calckey looks like in desktop mode.

     As you can see, it's got a very media-rich presentation of a feed.

     But there's also more!

     On the right pane are some widgets. You can customize which widgets you see there. I opted to see trending hashtags and recent notifications.

     On the left pane is the navbar. I'll get into that in a bit.

     At the top are different feeds including home, local, social, recommended, global, lists, and antennaes.

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 23:49:09 UTC Chris Trottier

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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.

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 23:49:09 UTC Chris Trottier

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     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.

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 23:49:09 UTC Chris Trottier

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     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.