Is an "everything" app the likely end state within the Fediverse? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by midnightlightning@beehaw.org to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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In the typical web marketing infrastructure, a company signs up for an email account for private messages, Twitter/X account for microblogging, YouTube account for video sharing, and Reddit for forum discussion.

With the Fediverse/ActivityPub model, currently a typical user might register a PeerTube account for video sharing, Mastodon for microblogging, and Lemmy for forum discussion. But the data under all those is the same infrastructure, right?

Facebook as a mature software platform has areas of its app for private messaging, microblogging, and video-specific content, all using one user account.

Is it likely that Fediverse apps will evolve toward a similar structure, where a person or company would only need one account and could push out content of all types there, and interact with others' content with one account?

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[-] grahamsz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

But the cool thing about open standards is that there's a clear pathway to creating an everything app. Especially if decentralized ids gain some traction, then we could have an app that combines mastodon and pixelfed but presents the different posts in a sensible way.

I can't really wrap my head around what such an app could look like, but it's much more feasible to build one than it would be with closed services. I'm hopeful that freedom to experiment without lockin will lead to some really neat ideas

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