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?

  • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    Never used BlueSky but what’s wrong with the multitude of apps already written for Mastodon? Also, do the features nap one to one with Mastodon or will some features work and not others?

    I find using the Mastodon apps easy. What I don’t find easy is getting the same level of engagement and an app won’t solve that. But it’s a totally different beast so I am ok with that.

    • TheFederatedPipe@fedia.ioOP
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      18 hours ago

      1. People are more familiar with the UI

      2. They are microblogging services, so yeah, I don’t see any feature that cannot be translated to the UI.

      3. I find it easy, but for other’s that’s not the case.

      4. The level of engagement can be hard to get on a decentralized service in a network that suffers from fragmentation. Besides, the way the developers of Mastodon (and other services) built their software was by in fact not federating things like likes to other instances, making it so that the level of interaction yoi see form a remote server is not actually the correct one.

      • Kierunkowy74@piefed.socialEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        Re: 4

        No app for Bluesky will help with this, because the purpose for the client (“app”) is to use the API (a Bluesky one right now). And Mastodon’s API provides exactly these not-federating like numbers - the problem you actually try to solve.
        The number of likes and boosts has to be fetched directly from an original instance. Moshidon for Android does already like this and Fedilab for Android allows to fetch an entire conversation.
        Bluesky clients have no concept for this they needed it.