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Any apps for the whole fediverse? (Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon?) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mastodon has a ton of apps and Lemmy app development is going crazy right now. Are there any apps that can use both Lemmy and Mastodon accounts (and preferably Kbin accounts too)? I know the interfaces may need to be different, but the protocols are the same as far as I understand it, so it seems technically possible.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Technically all of them work already, just with subpar UI. If you follow a Lemmy community on Mastodon by searching for it like a user, the community’s posts show in your Mastodon timeline.

Each community post appears as a Mastodon post boosted by the community “user”. Threaded replies all work.

To make a post to a community, you tag the user in any top-level Mastodon post.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Subpar UI really is what kills almost everything...

I can't be tired of saying how much I hate mastodon's default UI, where you can't pull posts from users simply because you server doesn't synchronize (what's wrong with pulling it straight from the original server)? Imagine if you subscribed to a community on Lemmy and it only showed posts AFTER you subscribed...

Or the follow menu that says "please copy and paste this on your app"... Really? If you check docs.joinmastodom....something it even says "just type your username@domain and we will do a remote follow"

I think Lemmy apps will evolve faster and show others what is needed to progress quickly. This is natural when considering how Lemmy users interact with each other.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I have been really surprised by how little progress Mastodon has made in terms of features. Especially compared to something like Calckey.

[–] akaxaka 1 points 1 year ago

Well, a bunch of the old 3rd party Twitter devs (& new devs) made a bunch of excellent Mastodon apps. If you use those, the experience is excellent.