so all the good stuff is running on #activitypub
does that make all the different apps just different frontends/views/UIs ?
(wanting to test out #pixelfed to help out people coming to fedi from insta, not wanting to make a new account)
#eli5
does that make all the different apps just different frontends/views/UIs ?
(wanting to test out #pixelfed to help out people coming to fedi from insta, not wanting to make a new account)
#eli5
CouncilsInExile •
- Apps in fedi are usually a server (mastodon, gotosocial, pixelfed) and UI (mastodon mobile app, mammoth, elk web app) pair, the account lives on the server and you can swap UIs for the same app
- Activitypub has a lot of features but not every server uses all of them
- Activitypub is also vague about some features so there can be variations on the ‘same’ feature (because mastodon is the biggest app it acts as a defacto standard in a way that makes some people annoyed)
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CouncilsInExile •
Doug Webb •
Would just be really cool to be able to switch UI's like skins on e.g. mediawiki/wikipedia. This should be technically possible somehow AFAICT