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Yeah, it’s been a bit of a rough ride since I started on GNU Social. When Mastodon first ‘came to power’ it felt like they were stepping on everyone’s toes. Eventually, I came around to a lot of what that community stood for and what they were building.
But it’s true, it feels like we still need a task force dedicated to smoothing out the rough edges of federation so that the ideal becomes reality for everyone. I’m confident we’ll get there and it’ll be magical when we do.
I think it would be great to see third-party applications pick up the slack in the meantime. Basically, having an app that lets you use any supported fediverse account to interact with a specific paradigm, whether it’s community threads or microblogs.
For example, I’m replying to you now from Mastodon since I want to use federation to the fullest, but copying urls from Kbin every time is laborious. Having an app that uses my Mastodon account and presents like Kbin would be the dream.
Yeah, digging into the fediverse is making things feel fresh again.
It’s giving everything a new spin since it’s all interconnected in a way only the open web could achieve. For example, I’ve upvoted and replied to this from Mastodon.
If it’s already this awesome, I can’t wait to see where it’s headed.