Is there any real or serious conversation or work around the idea of a feature-full social media browser?

Basically something like a web browser but for “all the social media” along with useful organisation features too.

For locked down big social APIs, this makes less sense nowadays, but for open alt-social systems, *it is likely the most valuable promise of such systems* that they can become like the web, reachable through an awesome all-in-one app.

@fediverse

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    3 months ago

    @aaaa

    Personally, I’m there with you I think. I only use default web-UIs on all fediverse platforms I’ve used, and advocate for that.

    But should multi-protocol systems and multi-platform clients become normalised, I think this goes beyond “to app or not to app”. What I’m talking about could likely just be a web-app.

    The issue is more around aggregation and creating something “greater than the sum of its parts” out of open alt-social.

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      3 months ago

      @aaaa

      A useful lens I find is whether a social media system is good at creating, facilitating and hosting genuine communities.

      Alt-social right now is struggling with this I think and, IMO, has plenty of room to grow in this regard.

      The difficulty though is that it requires more features in our platforms, some likely non-trivial. That’s a big ask for an open non-profit ecosystem.

      An effective means of aggregating multiple parts into a unified view could alleviate this.