I used to hear this joke with a cat or horse instead of duck, being a programmer rather than a roofer. Anyway, funny!

For web: better theming, for app: i18n, for both: much smoother subscription to other instances.

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I believe Flutter look and feel will likely get updated automatically at some point after the Android 12 release.

I see it as a configurable solution, as Lemmy isn’t only the site but rather a platform.

Nice! Some of those I didn’t know.

Any details on this setup? I’m using kinda the same.

I think there’s a clear distinction between an active community that at some point becomes inactive, and an empty community that has never been active. So different thresholds should be applied in these cases.

I’m a bit sceptical so would suggest waiting for a year and just download a regular Element.

Makes sense, I like it.

The thing is discoverability. In general, you can’t just search advertise the entire Fediverse using a party of a name, like “find me all communities about Africa”.

So then just wait when someone implements what you want, as I do.

From what I understand, Cerulean is more a proof of concept rather than in the works, tons of other more important things to implement. It first needs to have a proper spec on the Matrix side, then maybe an ActivityPub bridge, but the spec first. The answer anyway is - you want, you do, that’s open source.

Depends on what you consider useful. Does Mastodon have the same peer-to-peer video streaming features as Peertube? Also, subscribing to someone’s account from their page is a pain in many cases, when it’s not my instance I have to type my account ID manually, redirect to my instance and subscribe from there. And for nearly half Pleroma instances I get just Unknown error instead of proper redirect, so I copy their account username and domain, and paste them into the search field of my instance to find the account and subscribe. So, as I’ve said before, the reality can differ from what could be considered usable.

I’d better see Matrix integration, there’s something happening https://jasonrobinson.me/content/9db6bef7-e001-4de1-960a-6a24b59e5609/

Seems it’s not fetching 20 posts if I understand things correctly. I searched and then subscribed right away, if that was first search, does it mean I will see 20 posts before the moment I subscribed?

Interoperability is just an idea, the reality can differ, see what’s happening in the XMPP world for example. If Mastodon hasn’t got groups, how it will display group discussions from Lemmy or Mobilizon or maybe Pleroma in future?

I’ve been following him for a while, so if anything interesting maybe I’ll make another post.

They are limited to the functionality of a specific service where you have the identity. So that unless Mastodon supports groups, you won’t be able to discuss things on Lemmy with a Mastodon account.

Good to have some descriptions there, not everything is self-explanatory.