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Can't really make apps for a site that doesn't have an API. They did announce recently that Kbin's API is nearly done, so soon there'll be a flood of Kbin apps as well, and support for Kbin in all of the Lemmy apps too
Very much doubt. I'm sure many will but not all. The API isn't identical so they'd have to commit to maintaining both.
Yeah I suppose not all of them will want to commit to supporting Kbin, but some definitely will. Honestly though, so long as it's possible to search for and subscribe to Kbin magazines from Lemmy, that's all I really care about.
If nothing else, the Sync developer said he'd do it.
Memmy dev said they plan to as well but “not within this year” if I recall correctly.
Cool. Memmy is the best, but what is the purpose of a native kbin integration if it’s already federated? Are we able to view and not post or comment?
nice, that's the one I've been hoping for the most!
I'm so so looking forward to sync, and it gives me a lot of hope seeing all of these apps and fancy UI's, it's reassuring that the fediverse is here to stay and will continue to grow
Came here to say that.. Take your upvote, good sir..
It would be great if someone created a fediverse browser native app. Log into all the platforms and add a translation layer to create a truly unique experience. Maybe it would only make sense if you could authenticate one account on all the activitypub platforms? I understand the amount of technical hurdles and maintenance to do so. I suppose I find the thought of experiencing them combined intriguing. If someone created A single app experience, in a intuitive way, I’d definitely give it a try. I can see lemmy posts on mastidon. Would be kind of cool if it could handle that and display those posts using a lemmy ui. But making it seamless.
Based on this: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-clients/src/branch/main/README.md Fedilab, once it supports Lemmy and Kbin
The thing is, when an app does only 1 thing, it's easy to make sure it does that thing well. It's going to be a lot of work to support so many different API's, keep them updated, and provide a good UI/UX.
Yeah. Take the state of game emulation for example. Yes, Retroarch DOES have like 500 emulator """cores""", all of which can be configured from a single general purpose UI and using a single input layer.
But holy shit does hat UI and input configuration SUCK DONKEY BALLS.
My Anbernic is very happy running 80% of its consoles though it. But I do wish there was something better looking when I have the actual emulation layer running.
I don't, it's not that much more work as the basics of it won't change that much over time and the functionality will be near identical. We might not get newer features that are eventually added though.
I would expect that 99% bits of your app that talk to the API can be the same for both, you just need to maintain slightly different code for interacting with each actual API.
In fact scrolling further through the comments I see that not only is this how @hariette is handling it for Artemis but she's also looking at making the talking to both APIs bit of the code available to other devs.
This is why Lemmy's tangential features, such as being able to post from Mastodon accounts, or being able to post to that video service, are also not going to happen any time soon. It's just a lot of moving pieces, for functionality that's more interesting than useful.
@Nitrate55 I can't wait to be able to use Kbin on the go, I'm really gonna have nothing be done at that point
I do most of my kbin browsing on my phone using good old firefox.
It isn't perfect, but definitely works well enough until a dedicated mobile app comes out.
@snooggums Yeah I sometimes use the browser on my phone to use Kbin but it would be good to have a fully function App in the near future.
Firefox and toggle to desktop site works well for me.
You can install the kbin interface as a PWA on mobile, and it works pretty well. There are some kinks for sure, but it's 100% usable and better than lemmy.
Kbinites unite!!