"Tafkars stands for "The API formerly known as...", is written in Rust and is pronounced like "tough cars". Tafkars is an API proxy that allows apps to talk to Lemmy through a familiar API from a kinder time. The hope is that this will make it easy for app developers to support Lemmy with only minimal code changes." @fediverse
I don't think an unmodified Reddit app would be able to effectively browse the fediverse no matter how good a translation API is, but it could mean a lot LESS work for an app designer making a lemmy app.
What would the huddles be for normal, non-mod users? Once you sign up for an instance, isn't serving content from all and letting users subscribe to communities pretty much the same flow? I don't see why the fact that these "subs" are on different servers couldn't be transparent to the client.
The client I use -- Relay -- doesn't even have a sign up flow, and I suspect could transparently serve Lemmy content with a good translation API.
I still have Infinity installed and will miss it sorely. It has some features Jerboa is still missing. But I am hoping some of these 3rd party devs will find a love for Lemmy. If Lemmy can hold a growing community.
God I hope so. No knock against the developers, because it's a young app and they are improving it almost every day, but Jerboa is really hard to use coming from Relay.
The individual communities, no, but where they are hosted is decentralized.
Might not be a big UX problem. If Apollo or RIF had their own instances, and defaulted the feed to “all,” not local, then the experience would probably feel similar to a lot of folks.
But Apollo’s instance might also have a million+ folks, so that could be a performance problem.
@emberwit@Ghostalmedia well they are in the sense that any account from across the fedi can contribute to them. I just posted this topic from my single user mastodon instance