could you give an example?

barrier of entry and performance act as trade-offs to each others

Didn’t understand this before. Thank you!

thank you!

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Thank you! I totally agree with the idea of multiple platforms now. Though it is a pain to use fediverse on a single platform / app now, but I guess this problem will be solved once fediverse is matured enough.

thanks!

Yes I agree but plugin-based development isn’t exactly “put all eggs in one basket”

the problem with fediverse now is there isn’t an easy way to search on all platforms. That troubles me a lot

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The problem with fediverse now is there isn’t an easy way to search on all platforms. That troubles me a lot

Yes! but still I think fediverse could benefit from plugin-based development. So it would be “Write plugin that do one thing and do it well”

most developers are stuck in the app store mentality

really? the developers I know doesn’t seem to have this problem. They are all like “we should make those thing into one” I guess the opinion in this post came from them as well

So it would be reasonable for people to choose to enable or disable plugins. So if you don’t want to watch videos simply delete the video plugin then the program would work no different than what you desires

Most people actually prefer dedicated apps for different activities, with each app being better suited to the individual task.

I think maybe it is possible for one app to be most suited on everything? I could be wrong

good to know! is it possible to search Mbin post on lemmy?

Don’t you have the twitter plugin?

twitter plugin?

How do you see all the features of PeerTube fitting into Lemmy?

I mean, videos and text are basically just posts, right? What features couldn’t be implemented on lemmy?

All the platforms are already connected. You can follow a PeerTube channel from Mastodon. You can post in Lemmy communities from Mastodon. People on Pixelfed can follow you on Mastodon.

I haven’t seen a way to post in Lemmy communities directly from Mastodon. The bigger issue for me is that there’s no easy way to search across all these platforms. If I’m into a certain topic, I have to go hunting for it on each one separately.

You right on most things. But I still have some question.

Lemmy is written in Rust, Mbin in PHP, and Piefed in Python.

Do you think there is a “best” most efficient programming language for building the program?

Mbin adopted Reddit’s karma system, Lemmy didn’t. Sure you could combine both of those and give the user the choice, but this reflects a difference in design philosophies. Lemmy users don’t just lack a karma system, they outright don’t want one. It’s a system which promotes karma farming, so it’s associated with the worst of Reddit. But ironically, it also encourages contributing, which is probably why kbin (Mbin’s predecessor) originally added it. The fediverse is in need of contributors over lurkers, so whether a karma system is bad or good for it depends on your perspective. And that perspective differs between the developers of these two projects.

What I was thinking is to implement the karma system but leave the option of enabling it to servers and users. So this one is on lemmy.

they outright don’t want one

If I’m talking sense, based on my previous opinions, I think adding a “plugin” to lemmy is a better option than building something entire new.

Finally, there’s also the danger of a company acquiring the project and enshittifying it. They can’t really acquire an entire federation protocol and every software implementing it.

I don’t think it would be a problem if the project is open source?

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thanks!

I see now, thanks

Matrix is not part of the fediverse, so that’s kind of a special case and doesn’t work the same at all as the rest.

Didn’t know about that. Is there a fediverse messager people could use?

What you describe sounds very simplified, but let me assure you that there is nothing simple about this problem (I say that as a software engineer that has studied ActivityPub, the protocol underlying the fediverse).

I’m sure the development is difficult, and I don’t mean to downplay the complexity involved. Still, I wonder if a modular or plugin-based architecture could help bridge that gap.