Is there any real or serious conversation or work around the idea of a feature-full social media browser?

Basically something like a web browser but for “all the social media” along with useful organisation features too.

For locked down big social APIs, this makes less sense nowadays, but for open alt-social systems, *it is likely the most valuable promise of such systems* that they can become like the web, reachable through an awesome all-in-one app.

@fediverse

  • electricprism
    4·
    6 months ago

    Reminds me of how Thunderbird does Matrix, IRC, Pidgin, RSS and others.

    I think there is room for something like this.

    My only request would be that I can have filters in my feed to remove posts with certain words or emojis or profiles with descriptions including emojis of people I don’t want to converse with online.

    • maegul@hachyderm.ioOP
      31·
      6 months ago

      @electricprism

      Yea. The basic idea feels like something that’s kinda been forgotten in the wake of big-social’s long dominance and vanilla-ification of online activity.

      I even once asked the dev of a popular mastodon app who was expressing interesting in making a lemmy app too … “why not just add lemmy compatibility to the mastodon app”.

      Their response was that they couldn’t see what that would look like or how it would work.

      It’s all just text messages … I don’t think this is hard!