Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption
ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 10 months agoCan you expand that last line? I don’t understand clearly what you mean.
Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption
ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 10 months agoCan you expand that last line? I don’t understand clearly what you mean.
rako@piefed.social 10 months ago
Browsers are not supposed to be only "html document viewers". In spec parlance, they are supposed to be agents for doing whatever the user wants to do: that's why they also offer facilities for passwords, for example.
The fediverse is a bunch of web servers each with the accounts on it. When I am subscribed on instance A and go on an account on instance B, today the browser acts as a document viewer: I can see what the profile wants to show me, hopefully it has a button that properly redirects me but then I leave the context of the message I was looking at.
What I want instead is for the browser itself to offer me fediverse actions: like, comment, reply, directly from where the content I'm interacting with is. I don't expect browsers to do that soon so the next best thing is web extensions