The excitement over the ports of third party apps to Lemmy is overblown
The excitement over the ports of third party apps to Lemmy is overblown
Don't get me wrong, bringing more visibility to the platform will always be good, but wanting to jump ship from e.g. Jerboa to a port of one of those proprietary apps (Boost, Sync, etc.) kinda defeats the point of using an open platform in the first place.
I fully believe that each app developer should get their work recognized and make their apps paid if they wanted, I'm sure many will be inclined to buy them from the store still because of the convenience and/or wanting to support the developer.
But I think alongside the API conversion there should also be a shift in the development paradigm that follows up on the culture of the whole platform, Lemmy is free (as in freedom I mean) software, most of the Fediverse is, of course no one forces you to make your client free too, but the developers should feel encouraged to embrace that way of working and in turn users should be attracted to options that were made so, that will also foster powerful growth of the platform when everyone can examine, learn and contribute since clients play a crucial part in the interaction with the service
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I strongly disagree.
It's indeed an important sign the fediverse is growing organically and attracting people outside the niche.
I'd really like to see Lemmy compatibile server implementation and I don't care if they make the code closed source or you have to pay to register. The idea of the fediverse is exactly tho be open to diverse philosophies.
For the very same reason I'm glad threads will be federate with the rest of the fediverse. Don't like that particular instance? Don't use it, just like you don't use a website you don't like despite them using the same standard as everyone else