As excited as I am about the Fediverse and its diversity, an all-in-one application is the real dream. I’m afraid efforts are splintering into too many redundant apps (15 at this point across both platforms) when they could be focused on the one app to rule them all with clean, working interfaces for as many federated applications as possible. With Fedilab already supporting Friendica, Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, Peertube, and even GNU Social (with plans to support CalcKey), adding Lemmy / Kbin would be a game changer for me and many others. Add Funkwhale and maybe WordPress and it’s game over you never need to download any other apps.
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I think it’s great that there are so many apps. Some will win some will lose and new ones will come along. Just like the federated servers. If an app or server gets out of touch with the community it will get replaced or move.