Hi, new to the fediverse, mainly looking at Lemmy and mastodon right now through mbin, liking it very much.
I’m a Japanese language learner, currently at N3 and wanted to look at some fediverse content in that language. Keep hearing about misskey, but registration is limited from outside of Japan? I’m going over there next month, does that mean I could open an account while I’m there?
Also a bit confused about how it works, when browsing as a guest everything seems to scroll at lightning speed, how is one supposed to use it?
In general, even if you’re on Mastodon, Pleroma, or other fediverse instance, you can interact with Misskey.
The reason why Japanese content rarely be seen on Western fediverse is due to blocking. A lot of Western instance blocks misskey.io, oekakiskey, etc. Remind you that Misskey.io has the second biggest activities on fediverse. Basically incompatibility of rules. One allows R18+ drawn content, others are not.
There English Japanese-centric instance that federate with japanese instance normally and still federate with Western fediverse. Sakurajima.social (Mastodon) and Sakurajima.moe (Sharkey) would be a good candidate.
Thanks, I’ll try with sakurajima.moe and see how it goes.
Misskey works like and is compatible with any Mastodon or similar Fediverse instance. Once registered you can subscribe to local and remote users and then only see their updates and not the firehose all feed as on the public landing page.
You don’t need a Misskey (or Sharkey) account to participate in Japanese language Fediverse discussions, however note that due to different CSAM related legislation quite a few larger Japanese Fediverse instances are defederated from western Mastodon etc. instances due to frequently shared “loli” illustrations on the former.
Iceshrimp and Sharkey are forks of Misskey with more features. Are they still able to federate with it? How does Misskey federation work?
They can federate as intended.
The question is the community. Most of Sharkey instance are English or other European languages.
If it federates, what does that matter? Just read the Japanese Misskey content.
You don’t get local Japanese feed, which is the best way to randomly find new interesting things.
But if you follow enough users, won’t you start getting quite a good amount of that? Plus, you can probably just browse the local of some Misskey instance and then, if you want to comment or upvote, open it from within your own instance? It won’t be perfect, but I would imagine it will do the job just fine for a student.
One thing that I forgot: Misskey has feature of instance-only post, which means a lot of people post won’t federate.
You may be able to register with a Misskey instance that isn’t Japanese but still federates with misskey.io. For instance, I made an account on misskey.social which is an Italian-based instance. I still see posts from misskey.io, from anybody there that I follow.
Not sure what it looks like as a guest, but when I set my feed filter to “Global”, it is lightning fast. If you set that filter to “Social” you’ll see only who you follow, which will naturally slow it down.
Be warned that misskey.io has a lot of R34 art on it - keep that Sensitive Media blur up and running.
