This might sound wild or controversial, but has anyone thought about using the bluesky app and adapt it to work with the mastodon API? By this way making it easier for more people?

  • aasatru@kbin.earth
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    8 hours ago

    I think often people find it easier to write their own code than to make changes to other people’s projects, so it’s not necessarily very easy to change the Bluesky app to work with the Mastodon API rather than the Bluesky one.

    That said, I don’t think it’s a dumb idea. Bluesky has a lot of money to pump into UX development, so making sure Mastodon users could benefit from this wouldn’t be a bad thing. Personally I am perfectly happy with the alternatives already out there (Phanpy is better than anything else that has ever existed), but it’s all about choice. :)

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      I think often people find it easier to write their own code than to make changes to other people’s projects

      A rarely mentioned weakness of open source, and it can only be getting worse given the narcissism of younger generations.

      I regularly see cases of multiple projects with exactly the same goals. All that duplication of effort just to serve the vanity of the respective project leaders. The wasted potential for good software has to be huge.

      • aasatru@kbin.earth
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        4 hours ago

        I feel like this is part of what makes @fedify@hollo.social one of the most important fediverse projects at the moment - it aims to keep everyone from having to do the same, overly complicated job of activitypub integration over and over and over again.

        It’s frustration that nobody wants to dig into old code, but I get frustrated having to re-work my own code from a year ago. So I guess I sympathize.