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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[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think often people find it easier to write their own code than to make changes to other people’s projects

A rarely mentioned weakness of open source, and it can only be getting worse given the narcissism of younger generations.

I regularly see cases of multiple projects with exactly the same goals. All that duplication of effort just to serve the vanity of the respective project leaders. The wasted potential for good software has to be huge.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like this is part of what makes @fedify@hollo.social one of the most important fediverse projects at the moment - it aims to keep everyone from having to do the same, overly complicated job of activitypub integration over and over and over again.

It's frustration that nobody wants to dig into old code, but I get frustrated having to re-work my own code from a year ago. So I guess I sympathize.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Interesting insight, thx.