It would be very cool imo to have similar aesthetic guidelines for all these fronts. Material design is the stardard in this era but Fediverse has the occasion to be more attractive with something new and more organized.
It would be very cool imo to have similar aesthetic guidelines for all these fronts. Material design is the stardard in this era but Fediverse has the occasion to be more attractive with something new and more organized.
As others are saying, you can’t prescribe the UI, plus it might be boring. But I get your point. The communication protocol - via the ActivityStreams / ActivityPub open standards - allows apps to deeply integrate with other apps… in theory. We haven’t really scratched the surface yet on what is possible here. The protocols are very extensible and can be used for many different types of applications (see the AP Watchlist).
What I would like to see are way more ActivityPub servers whose services I can tie together to compose my own UI’s on top of. Instead of building apps, developers would build services that can be combined in a variety of ways. I wrote a bit about it in From silo-first to task-oriented app design on the SocialHub community. We are far from this vision to become reality, atm. For this more mature fediverse to arise a strong community of builders is needed, who evolve standards, standardize on protocol enhancements and design extensions.