This might sound wild or controversial, but has anyone thought about using the bluesky app and adapt it to work with the mastodon API? By this way making it easier for more people?

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[–] TheFederatedPipe@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you misunderstood what I'm referring to. The bluesky app is open source and it has the same UI as twitter, basically. I'm talking about forking the project to make it compatible with Mastodon.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 1 day ago

I perfectly well understood what you meant. The issue is that bluesky is barely different from xitter and threads. If those two brought an open source app I wouldnt touch that either. Mind you, meta releases open source stuff, as does microsoft. Just because they’re evil doesnt mean they wouldnt do it.

We have an ongoing debate in the fediverse if we should be open to (e.g.) federating with those services if it comes to it (in case of threads, it did). I‘m a signee of the fedipact but I hold all billionaire media in that regard for the future.

Working on intercompatibility is the same thing and everyone has the right to do whatever they like. I have the right to let you know that there are risks involved. One example out of the top of my head: bluesky could decide to block your app or display ads for the „real app“ since it is a proprietary backend that you have to call from the app.