@Justdaveisfine@midwest.social it’s not that it is better. Idk if you saw the satire title or not, but this was a joke.

It’s just a personal preference. No platform is above another, in the fediverse everyone is equal:)

But the main difference is that Misskey doesnt have an API, so native apps can’t be built (if im not mistaken), so they make their web app better optimized.
Mastodon however has the options of having many clients. I think that’s the main difference.

Everything that Novaling said applies.

For people that like to go on long rants or post lots of pictures in a single post, Misskey (and Sharkey, a common fork) allow servers to set custom text limit, with some having 5k characters, others 99k, it also allows markdown on posts, so you can use bold, italics, headers and whatnot, and you can post more than 4 pictures (mstdn’s limit) per post.

The main the downside in my opinion, the browser pages running *key are absurd CPU hogs and can crash your browser. I also only know one android app that connects to these instances, Pachli.

@Fizz@lemmy.nz there are many english misskey servers, you just need to spend like a day looking for them (Yeah, easier to just sign up at an english lemmy server, but since i like misskey UI, worth the search)

@memes@lemmy.world

Easy to find sharkeys, tho ;)