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Alexandrite is slick, gorgeous, and brings a lot to the Lemmy experience. I highly recommend giving it a try.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know what's funny? I would never use something like this (my own Lemmy client is absolutely terrible in comparison!). But I'm so happy that Alexandrite exists: it's proof that programming and web development can still be experimental and loads of fun. Congrats to the developers!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, I think this is the real selling point of the fediverse, at least for developers. There's no incentive to force people to use Official Mobile Clients™. You can literally spin up something (meaning a fediverse server) locally, if you want, and test against that until you have something that works. And as long as you stick to the API, you can build whatever you want.

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

Woah, is that a Plan9 / 9Front client?! 🤯

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes - well, almost! I made a read-only filesystem interface to Lemmy then wrote a small program for one of the Plan 9 text editors/programming environments to access it.

The real thing would be to serve that filesystem interface over the Plan 9 file protocol (9P). Not quite there yet!