I’ve thought about it a bit and the Fediverse has been around for a while now. There are some really cool applications being made to replace the mainstream ones, but they just aren’t taking off.

Why do you guys think that might be? Ease of use? Addiction to the mainstream platforms? Lack of marketing?

  • @nutomicA
    5•3 years ago

    Which apps did you try for Mastodon? Tusky is almost perfect in my opinion (though I never tried twitter so I couldnt compare it).

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
      7•3 years ago

      Yeah, I use Tusky as well and quite happy with it. I wonder if it might be worth looking at forking Slide Reddit app and adapting it for Lemmy. Presumably, bulk of the changes would just be around the API calls since Lemmy and Reddit both have very similar UX. Might be less work to take adapt an existing mature app than starting from scratch.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
          4•3 years ago

          If Slide devs are open to it, then it’s probably a good option. It would still be possible to make other apps in the future, and Slide already has its own style that’s not Reddit branded which is a plus.

      • @SirLotsaLocks
        3•3 years ago

        Yeah I love fedilab, even if pixelfed and peertube aren’t great I think its really cool that they are all integrated in to one experience instead of switching a bunch of apps all the time

    • DessalinesA
      3•3 years ago

      Fedilab, which is really clunky and confusing to me, haven’t tried tusky yet. As @tskaalgard@lemmy.ml twidere is a really great twitter app.