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Any apps for the whole fediverse? (Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon?) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mastodon has a ton of apps and Lemmy app development is going crazy right now. Are there any apps that can use both Lemmy and Mastodon accounts (and preferably Kbin accounts too)? I know the interfaces may need to be different, but the protocols are the same as far as I understand it, so it seems technically possible.

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[–] ben@l.twos.dev 21 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Technically all of them work already, just with subpar UI. If you follow a Lemmy community on Mastodon by searching for it like a user, the community’s posts show in your Mastodon timeline.

Each community post appears as a Mastodon post boosted by the community “user”. Threaded replies all work.

To make a post to a community, you tag the user in any top-level Mastodon post.

[–] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was trying to figure this out earlier - does this work in reverse? Can I interact with mastodon posts through lemmy's interface?

[–] fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I haven’t found a way to, and when I visit Lemmy communities via Mastodon, I can’t really post or upvote or downvote. The UI is totally different- literally like browsing Reddit using Twitter’s interface. An app that truly combines them will either need two interfaces or some pretty brilliant UI/UX design to make everything work in one interface

[–] esty@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

it would be exactly like kbin - a tab for microblogs and a tab for threads, with a ui fitting for each

[–] possum@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The UI of squabbles.io actually feels good for this. It's a shame it's closed-source and doesn't federate.

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