Comment on Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution?
rglullis@communick.news 3 weeks agoThere’s a reason why Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit are separate sites, and why none have tried to implement the UI or feature set of the other.
Yes, the reason is that corporations can not profit from an unsiloed web of data, so they all created their own walled gardens and successfully fooled users into believing that the UI needs to be tightly coupled with the data they host.
having 3 different tabs open with the 3 different kinds of content/conversations just makes a lot more sense to me.
What would be stopping us from having these tabs using the same data from the social graph?
Coopr8@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
Yes, this is my point exactly. I want the 3 tabs, AND I want a unified inbox that opens those tabs when I interact with a relevant notification. Seems like there are some projects heading this direction.
Ideally I dont want a new tab to open for every time I click on a different notification of the same type, just reuse the existing client tab that is open.
artifex@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Maybe a browser plugin/extension would be better in your case then? That would actually probably be not too hard to vibe-code if you're so inclined.
Coopr8@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
Yes, basically a browser plugin and a skin would do it. Someone just commented that push notifications at the desktop level handle this for them, and that was an aha moment. The extension could just be a push notification log woth the ability to filter for a group of designated sources.