That can work then. I might try it.

Yah. This doesn’t work if you are scrolling through several dozen apps in the app drawer. They all look too much alike.

But your saying Peertube should have all the forum functionality of Lemmy, and the endless short video scroll of Loops.

rgluilis suggested a generic server idea, where the media and experience differentiating is done at the client app level. That could work well. But that’s an entirely different concept and structure.

And that’s great! Everyone gets what they want. But suggesting Lemmy, Pixelfed, and Peertube, etc. should all try to do it the way Friendica does, is a bad idea.

So like a single ActivityPub instance that hosts all the data, but users can have a Pixelfed app, Lemmy app, etc. all connect to that one server and use it to give the experience they specifically provide.

That’s a cool idea. I can see how that would work.

Why would you follow the same accounts on multiple platforms?
Or do you mean one person who has accounts on multiple platforms?

I think you might be conflating two things. Right now the Fediverse largely looks like you just described. It’s in it’s infancy, trying to copy what it sees around it. Eventually it’ll become a rebellious teen and forge it’s on seperate identity. That’s inevitable. I wouldn’t worry about it.

It’s a very different thing though, saying all the apps need to integrate all the features and experience of every other app, so they’re all largely the same and there’s never a need to use more than one. That sounds like a terrible idea.

Is it?
Because that seems really dumb.

Why would any specific niche service want to duplicate the features and functions of every single other niche service? The whole point is to have different experiences and uses, that might be able to (however works for them) interoperate as they see fit.

It’s a terrible idea that they should all try to eventually do all the same everything.

When I read the headline without context, I thought casting directors were just casting actors unseen over the phone.
But this is worse.

But tech IS political. Can you show me an example of non-political tech?

Human life, human endeavors, human ambitions, are all inherently political. Politics is literally humans disagreeing on something. Technology is politics. Lemmy itself, the Fediverse, the software it’s built on, is inherently a political act of rebellion against corporate controll of discourse. Shitposting was literally invented through political discourse, for political purposes. That’s what it’s always been about.

Wanting to avoid politics is a political choice. It’s Chooseing to be ignorant of the world shaping forces that effect your life and the lives of everyone else.

I’ve got no advice for you.
You do you. But whatever you may do, will be political. There’s no way around that.