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Photon for Lemmy

A client for the fediverse designed to be intuitive, fast, and beautiful.

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Is it technically possible to make a client version of this software? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by LazerFX@sh.itjust.works to c/photon@lemdro.id

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So I'm looking for a new client, specifically mobile, that's FOSS, easy to use, allows for browsing communities on other instances easily (not just searching for instances, but actually viewing the list of instances, etc).

I'm a dev, so happy to put some legwork into it myself. So my question is - technically, is the UI tied to being run on an instance "directly", or could it be detached, electron- or atom-ified and put into an app?

I can do the work, but before starting I'd like to know :⁠-⁠)

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[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

I've tried most of them . The ones that work the way I want, especially for easy portable UI/UX design are closed source. Sadly, none of them have a nice workable UI for easy use, or if they do, they're really poor in another area.

This does all I want, with a nice UI and works nicely on mobile (with a few sizing tweaks).