I am currently working on a crossplatform browser for the fediverse, which will allow you to unify identities from mastodon, bluesky, and anywhere else across the open/decentralized social web into a single feed for easy browsing and management. It will also serve as a highly customizable and feature rich fediverse client, allowing profile and client theme customization, as well as groups, rss subscriptions, and several other features I've yet to fully flesh out.
Things to note:
- This is a pre-alpha project, and just seeking some very initial feedback on the very broad strokes of what is planned and what is done so far. If you are interested in collaboration and furthering the development of the project, please feel free to reach out.
- Features such as groups (i.e. federating with the threadiverse such as lemmy/piefed) or rss subscriptions are not implemented yet, it's just a basic unified feed for bluesky/mastodon at the moment.
- This is not a live site that can be visited yet, it's just an app on your client that authorizes access to the various platforms through oAuth flows. However, the plan is to eventually have a dedicated server hosting infrastructure in place, with individual platform identities able to be registered on a unified instance, and local/self-hosting data storage options.
So, please provide any and all feedback you have on what I have shown above, both good and bad, and feel free to ask clarifying questions on how the platform will work overall. Open to hearing what people think of the idea overall.
Very cool looking and interesting idea.
Why not something like a browser extension?
Have you heard of Fediforum and if so, are you joining? https://fediforum.org/
Where is a good place to talk to you?
I run two podcasts. Fireside Fedi and Works On My Machine Live if you ever want to hop on. Womml is me installing stuff with devs, so understandably probably not that yet.
No matter what, keep up the awesome work. We need everyone to do anything. The web once built with a single piece. It took everyone imagining, designing, building, breaking, etc.
Thank you for taking your time to build for us.
I have very briefly considered a browser extension, but could not figure out how to do it in a way that made sense. Perhaps it could be something that I do once the full version has been fleshed out, so I can figure out what features would make sense as an extension, vs a standalone browser/platform.
I had heard about the fediforum, and am definitely interested. Thanks for the reminder, I will look into registering.
Best place to reach me would be lovingisliving.bsky.social and @lovingisliving@indieweb.social. I am not sure when I will be ready to talk about the project overall, but I am open to it down the line when things are more solidified.
Thanks for all of the info, I will definitely check out the podcasts and conference!
@ozoned @robert.meyer86
I have fediverse accounts on mastodon, lemmy, @peertube, @mobilizon (I believe we need multiple accounts right? Or could I have only one?)
Would your app help me managing all the notifications etc? Just merging the feeds is already interesting to me
Is it foss?
Yes, that is the general idea of the app, unifying all of your social interactions under one UI. It is foss, and I will soon be looking for contributors and issue reports, once I am ready to make the repo open to the public. I just have a few more foundations to set in place.