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

  • maegul (he/they)English
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    6 months ago

    Hell, I don’t even use bookmarks. I type in the web address for my services every time

    Yea, I hear you (I don’t use bookmarks either) … but I don’t think this is the average user.

    I think the best example is the issues with that come from Lemmy/Mastodon integration. Mastodon posts have a different mentality than Lemmy posts do, not to mention with structure of responses.

    This sounds to me like a design issue. In fact, this is kinda my point … better interaction here, which is the “promise” of the fediverse, may be best addressed with good aggregating clients rather than relying on too platforms to work out their historical differences over the protocol.