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?
Besides the first mover advantage, I’d say the biggest thing is lack of good mobile apps. Most people do social media on their phones nowadays, whereas the biggest sites got popular in a time before that was needed.
I’m not a huge fan of the twitter style of social media, but I might use mastodon or pleroma more if the apps were a bit better. Lemmy also has this problem cause we have no apps released yet, although a few like lemmur are in the works.
Which apps did you try for Mastodon? Tusky is almost perfect in my opinion (though I never tried twitter so I couldnt compare it).
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.
It could even be done by adding lemmy support to slide, similarly to how NewPipe supports peertube alongside Youtube.
Though by doing that we may lose lemmy having its own distinctive style.
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.
Twidere is really good for both Twitter and Mastodon, and Fedilab is really good for Mastodon too (but it SUCKS for PeerTube and Pixelfed)
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
I’d honestly rather have seperate apps that work flawlessly with the site than one app that works well with Mastodon but doesn’t work well with everything else.
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.
I used fedilab before and started using tusky, both are very great, but for some reason Tusky feels might lighter.