Hello, I'd like to build a mobile client for mastodon, lemmy and pixelfed that would be video/image focused with a scrolling ui similar to tiktok or the reddit video viewer.

You would have a sortable/filterable feed with contents from different activitypub networks and would see it full page with a like/voting button on the right and the comments under.

Does anyone know if such a client already exists, and if not, could any dev share starter point links for building such an app ?

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[–] QuantumSoul@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for answering

I am not planning on the algorithm part as it is too far for me and lemmy one is sufficient. That means you won't be scrolling for hours when you have catched up news, but I think it's a good thing since I don't want the addiction part. I was thinking about a very simplistic app with only the feeds we get in other clients, simpler than current clients.

I might have considered it too easy though looking at what you say

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

You're welcome!

So if you didn't care about having to wait for the video to buffer on every scroll, it becomes an easier problem. I kind of think that defeats the purpose of a tiktok-style interface though.

I agree that you wouldn't necessarily need to build a new algorithm, but like I said, it's part of the smooth scrolling magic