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

  • maegul@hachyderm.ioOP
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    4 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.