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?

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[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Undvik@fedia.io 1 points 15 hours ago

Thanks, I'll try with sakurajima.moe and see how it goes.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For Misskey-powered instances, there's also Nijimiss.moe from the bigger ones I know about. It appears to either house or federate a lot of Japanese users too, from what I could observe. And dunno your Mbin instance, but on mine, I can follow Misskey.io and Nijimiss.moe users just fine, just taking a little while to populate the /all page (but surely happening since Japanese folks seem to interact between one another a lot), and at worse on federation to Mbin with some formatting issues for posts since Misskey feels a bit like its own thing.

But alas, on the flagship (?) instance, I know a guy that was able to create an account when he/she lived for a while in Japan, and when the person went to another country, access to the site remained.

[–] Undvik@fedia.io 1 points 15 hours ago

Thanks, I guess I have to find some Japanese accounts to follow and see how mbin takes care of it. Will also try to open an account while over there to see if it still works when back home

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] Tuuktuuk@nord.pub 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Iceshrimp and Sharkey are forks of Misskey with more features. Are they still able to federate with it? How does Misskey federation work?

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They can federate as intended.

The question is the community. Most of Sharkey instance are English or other European languages.

[–] Tuuktuuk@nord.pub 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If it federates, what does that matter? Just read the Japanese Misskey content.

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

You don't get local Japanese feed, which is the best way to randomly find new interesting things.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

https://pf.korako.me/communities?search=&home_select=local