Most apps I find are only mastodon-like (including pleroma etc.), or only lemmy-like, or only peertube-like. One of the main benefits of the fediverse is that I could theoretically access all of those from one platform. But the clients I saw don't seem to support it too well.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even Fedilab is limited.

Sure, most "Fediverse apps" are Mastodon apps which allow you to use anything that supports the Mastodon API, but which only offer you Mastodon's feature set, maybe even only the feature set of Mastodon 3 if the app is old enough.

Fedilab has specific features of other projects coded in. After all, it's made by Pixelfed's creator and developer, so it has to support as many Pixelfed features as possible, even if Mastodon doesn't have them.

But Fedilab doesn't have all features of all supported projects. For example, Fedilab does not have the necessary extra entry field for post titles on Friendica.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

For sure, support isn't always complete and the Masto API is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I think that Fedilab really wants to be a Fediverse app though. I'm pretty sure their development has slowed a lot in the last year too because their dev has had some health issues. Although it's "tom79," not Dansup (who makes Pixelfed and a million other things).

I don't think it supports Pixelfed-exclusive features either. I don't think there's even an app that supports stories right now - even the official one.