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1. Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 23:48:51 UTC Chris Trottier

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   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.

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 23:48:52 UTC Chris Trottier

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     Like Twitter and Mastodon, #Calckey supports bookmarks. These are a private means to save posts to review at a later date.

     Bookmarks are easily accessible through the navbar.

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 23:48:52 UTC Chris Trottier

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     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 (but not channels themselves) 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.

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 23:48:52 UTC Chris Trottier

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     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.

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 23:48:53 UTC Chris Trottier

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     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.

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 23:48:54 UTC Chris Trottier

     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.