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Droppie:linux: :archlinux: :kde: :plasma: :zenbrowser: :floorp: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :fedora: :opensuse: :debian: A dropbear smugly admires her excellent new <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/FOSSemojis" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSSemojis</a> kindly provided by <a href="https://blahaj.zone/@ada" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ada</a> , in what is more & more appearing likely to become her new daily Fedi. <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Sharkey" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sharkey</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/blahajzone" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blahajzone</a>

AdaI've been meaning to do a "State of the Shark" post for a while, and go through and explain some of the history and important moments that blahaj.zone has been through. For those of you who have been here for a while, you know it got a bit rough at points, and I want to take the chance to explain some of what happened. I joined the fediverse in April 2022, around 6 months before the big twitter exodus in November 2022. I fell in love with what I perceived to be the freedom of instances to create safe spaces for trans folk that had been harassed on twitter (At the time, I didn't have an awareness of how that inclusion doesn't always extend to trans folk that don't have white privilege) I was talking to a friend <a href="https://blahaj.zone/@supakaity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@supakaity</a> (well, friend at the time. Now we're partners, together with <a href="https://blahaj.zone/@internutter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@internutter</a>) and she said that she was planning on spinning up a fediverse instance. Kaity would supply the technical skills, and I would bring my community building and development experience and be "front of house". We did some brain storming, and came up with several names centered on blåhaj, because we wanted the instance to be focused on trans and gender diverse folk, without being specifically restricted to trans users. And so, in late November 2022, blahaj.zone was born. Initially, we tried Misskey, mostly because I hated the Mastodon interface and wanted something prettier. But Misskey has very little documentation in english, and not much usage outside of Japan. At the time, there weren't many Misskey forks, with FoundKey and Calckey being the main options. We had a look at Calckey, and decided to go with it. It had a small but active development team, and several instances already running it. And so we went live with Calckey. Kaity, being Kaity, would listen to some of my frustrations around usability, and started to expand the feature set of Calckey. Many of these fixes got pushed back to Calckey main, but not all of them. Those that were not pushed up to Calckey stayed in use on blahaj.zone though, and eventually we named our little soft fork of Calckey "Hajkey" (pronounced Hi-Key). Around this time, Calckey was starting to get traction, and we were starting to get users who would join, just to try out some of the features that Kaity was working on. And for a while, all was good. But for reasons that don't belong in this post, we eventually fell out of step with the Calckey development team and decided to go our own way. When Calckey rebranded as Firefish, we formally parted ways. But that left us a dilemma. We did not want to move to the Firefish software base, as it was moving in technical directions that we didn't want to go. And we couldn't stay on our version of Calckey/Hajkey, as some of the bugs were show stoppers. So we had to look at alternatives, and decided to rebase Hajkey off of Iceshrimp. And then Kaity got in to a really bad accident. Concussion, broken jaw, and an injury to her arm that even now, still hasn't been resolved. So blahaj.zone entered limbo. We were partially rebased on ice-shrimp, but without the chance to fully integrate all of the Hajkey features, and with federation bugs and issues. The instance was up and running, but it was wounded, and the task of updating it seemed impossible, especially whilst recovering from a major accident. Ultimately, we made the decision to rebase again, this time on Sharkey, but even then, the work of implementing all of the Hajkey specific changes was huge, and so, we made the decision to let Hajkey go, and move to vanilla Sharkey. And here we are now, running Sharkey, and with the instance humming again! I've made Kaity promise to try and not end up creating a huge workload for herself by re-creating the Hajkey features as Hajkey, so our hope is that over time, we will add at least some of them to Sharkey itself. That way, every Sharkey update will not involve a day of code merging from Kaity. As much as I miss some of our old features, I am so much happier to have blahaj.zone buzzing and alive again! Thank you to everyone, and here's to a strong future! :blahaj_is_fine: :BlahajSpin: :Blobhaj_Ani_Hophop: :Blobhaj_Heart_Trans: :Blobhaj_Thanks_Wow: <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/blahajzone" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blahajzone</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/sharkey" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sharkey</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/hajkey" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hajkey</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/firefish" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#firefish</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/calckey" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#calckey</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/iceshrimp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#iceshrimp</a>

Jo (she/they)A big hello and welcome to all the new people who've joined <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/blahajzone" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blahajzone</a> the past couple of days. It's great to have you here! Our admins are <a href="https://blahaj.zone/@ada" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ada</a> and <a href="https://blahaj.zone/@supakaity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@supakaity</a>. Ada leads the front of house and moderation side of Blåhaj Zone, while Kaity leads the back-end and maintains Hajkey for us & a small group of other instances. Our server runs a fork of <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Calckey" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Calckey</a> that we call <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Hajkey" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hajkey</a> (pron. hi-key). A <a href="https://blahaj.zone/@ada/pages/HajkeyFeatures" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">summary of the features unique to Hajkey.</a> Here's the link to our Community Documents such as our <a href="https://blahaj.zone/@blahaj/pages/1683119155731" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy.</a> If you're wanting to migrate from a <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> account, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/@blahaj/pages/1675999986045" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here's a step by step instruction guide for moving to Blahaj.zone.</a> We also have a <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Lemmy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lemmy</a> server available for signups at <a href="https://lemmy.blahaj.zone" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://lemmy.blahaj.zone</a> and a <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/kbin" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kbin</a> server that's soon to be open, for those looking for <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Reddit" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Reddit</a> - like communities. They can also be interacted with from here or other places in the Fediverse. I'm neither a mod nor admin here, but am happy to help if I can. I've written this <a href="https://blahaj.zone/@jo/pages/1676089253691" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">about how the five main timelines work</a> and <a href="https://blahaj.zone/notes/9b5uy76thd" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">this popular post about</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Antennas" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Antennas</a>. If you haven't already, please take the time to post an <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/introduction" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#introduction</a>. Here's my <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/intro" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#intro</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/notes/9b22khdvby" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here</a> and I've attached a <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/selfie" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfie</a> with <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/eyecontact" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#eyecontact</a> I look forward to getting to know some of you more. Kind love xx Jo (she/her/they/them) <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/FindAServer" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FindAServer</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Migration" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Migration</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Feditips" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Feditips</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Welcome" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Welcome</a>

Glimmer :ace_verify: :transfem_verify:Hey friends, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/BlahajZone" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlahajZone</a> piqued my interest, so here's a new <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/introuction" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#introuction</a> post! I am an <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Asexual" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Asexual</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Queer" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Queer</a> artist, game developer, and gamer. I love relaxed sandbox games like <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/TheSims3" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheSims3</a>, <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/AnimalCrossing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AnimalCrossing</a>, and <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Minecraft" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Minecraft</a>. Outside of gaming I am mostly obsessed with Twilight, JoJo, She-Ra, and Nintendo. Basically... I like gay nerdy shit. :Blobhaj_Heart_Rainbow: As it usually is with new alts, I'm still unsure what instances I want to be active on, so I'm not sure how often I'll post yet! But thanks for having me.

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