It’s a sad time for the social network formerly known as T2, but not all hope is lost.

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    1 year ago

    It would have been more interesting as an independent activitpub connected service to help illustrate Fediverse != mastodon. Dont really need another twit app though.

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      Yeah it would be nice to see some other coders ideas on the Fediverse. If I knew the first thing when it came to coding I would creating something that would work me, don’t get me wrong I love the Fediverse and what everyones done just sometimes it feels there’s a few things missing

  • Nix@merv.news
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    1 year ago

    Hopefully they contribute to the mastodon code too. Seems like a lot of people are making forks and frontends instead of improving the mastodon code (backend, and app)

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      The mastodon dev team is notoriously opinionated. A lot of forks/frontends start because the dev wants features that mastodon has refused.

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    1 year ago

    I think the Mastadon theming looks pretty good but I really don’t understand why it’s so difficult to just rebuild their frontend on top of it? Can somebody smarter than me explain why that’s such a challenge?

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPM
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      The main thing is that their frontend was built for whatever APIs their own platform supported. You can theoretically adjust the code to use the Mastodon API instead, but it can actually be kind of a tedious process to change everything over.

      It’s probably easier to mod an existing frontend to look and act the way they want, or write a new one from scratch.

      The other thing is, it’s still a really new instance, and kind of started as a community experiment. While it looks like it could be a big next step for Pebble, they’re probably more interested in testing the waters before doing any serious committed development on it.