- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
Edit: Removed the photos due to lemmy crawler displaying the toot.
Damn shame, tbh. Out of all of them I really like the visuals and vibe of Firefish.
Yeah it looked promising. Also a shame I never got to try it properly because it didn’t work for me from the start. Home timeline never loaded and errored out and I never got any kind of support response so gave up on it. Oh well.
(Also, hi Harry in the wilds of Lemmy. 👋😂)
Yeah it had a pretty rough ride at the start but when it worked, it was really nice tbh.
Also:
That was quick
Sounds like my ex.
Gotta make the most of it, go back for seconds, thirds…
Self-burn, those are rare
Glad I held back from suggesting Firefish for my wife. I’ve been slowly trying to convince her to jump to the fediverse for microblogging and figured to have her try Firefish simply because it’s prettier than Mastodon. Guess it’s back to ol’ Mastodon.
Sharkey might also be worth a look.
Does anyone know if Mastodon have that “multiple frontends” thing Lemmy has?
There are some. Mastodon has a lot of garbagey nonsense, but they do at least have a proper API which will let you make a non-shit front end if you wanted.
That’s not what I mean. Lemmy has two separate repositories: one for the backend, and one for the default frontend. New frontends can be written and straight-up hooked into the server’s backend instead of making all those API calls. For example, see https://photon.lemmy.dbzer0.com/ vs https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/.
Well, Lemmy’s front end talks to it’s back end via an API, which is pretty much how every web app of any scale works these days.
There’s really not any particular difference between a monolithic app vs a seperate front end in terms of “all those API calls” since everything is basically calling APIs at this point, if they’re not made by complete incompetents. (In the case of Mastodon, though, I suppose complete incompetent is possible.)
Oh, I didn’t realize that.
photon doesn’t directly communicate with the backend, it’s not intended for that. but even then, lemmy-ui is almost entirely client side (for some reason) and it makes its calls to the API
Have you checked out Tangerine UI
https://github.com/nileane/TangerineUI-for-Mastodon
I am especially sad because firefish was the first fedi project that I donated to. A lot of people had problems with firefish, but the server I was on was absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, they server maintainers foresaw the demise of the software and decided to shut down early this year, on March.