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Hi everyone,
I am the indie developer behind SoraSNS (a Fediverse and Bluesky client featured by Tech Crunch twice).
I just started working on a modern and futuristic styled Lemmy client. It will have a modern UI and equal features as the alien blue app.
Some features I am planning include:
- all features like alien blue app (you know which app I am referring to)
- a better notification interface so you can see the thread the message belongs to
- auto translation feature
- bookmark folders
- folders to organized your subscribed communities
- a discovery feed for most popular posts from your subscribed communities and followed persons
- watch a post and receive notifications about new comments
- scroll horizontally to switch to previous or next post in the list
- Home Screen widget to automatically show top news, refreshed automatically several times a day
- Filters for posts and comments based on activity, follow status
The image I attached is obviously the build 0. The target release date is around the first week of May.
If you are interested, please subscribe to the community to receive updates and TestFlight:
My other apps: SoraSNS for Mastodon Misskey Bluesky, with local ML powered For You timeline: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sorasns-for-mastodon-bluesky/id6450969760
Thank you in advance!
three suggestions:
fyi, since your post links to
https://lemmy.world/c/remyandhttps://lemmy.zip/c/remyicymi the preferred way to link to communities (so that everyone can access them via their own home instance) is like this:[[email protected]](/c/[email protected]). When someone types that in the lemmy web interface, it will auto-complete and expand it into link markup like[[email protected]](https://lemmy.zip/c/remy), but when that markup is rendered it will actually become a link to access the community via the reader's home instance. For instance, for me that link will actually go tohttps://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]where i can interact with the community whereashttps://lemmy.zip/c/remywill take me to thelemmy.zipwebsite where i do not have an account. Here is a non-escaped example (my previous examples are all escaped with backtick characters to prevent them from rendering) which anyone should be able to click to load it through their own instance: [email protected]. Please ensure that your client can both generate and follow community links like this! (as well as user links to lemmy and other activitypub things; user links work the same except they're prefixed with@instead of!.)you don't need multiple communities for your app; users from .world can post on .zip and vice-versa (and it is easy for them to if you link to the community the way described above).
will you ever consider open sourcing it? :)
Oh wow thank you for the detailed information! Going to update the post now.
You’ve been dodging the open source question repeatedly because IMO you’re here to make money off of our naivety.
The fediverse happily funds devs that want to help build the community. Here’s a proper fediverse style community: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
Notice how many contributors there are and the licensing?
Neat!
Thank you ✨