That site looks like it’s closed source. FOSS projects tend to not be well designed in the frontend except the occasional gem. Not sure why it’s such a pattern
Comment on Threadiverse... on ATProto?!
Coopr8@kbin.earth 2 days ago
Why do ATProtocol projects tend to look so much more polished even in their infancy? Is that where the front-end people dwell?
Xylight@feddit.online 1 day ago
eleijeep@piefed.social 1 day ago
Form over function. They probably have aspirations of getting VC funding and for that you need to look like every other web app.
julian@activitypub.space 1 day ago
In a nutshell, it's because you don't have to build the entire kit and kaboodle all at once.
Lots of BlueSky is centralized so you don't have to worry about distribution, user, hosting, scaling, etc. and just focus on the frontend.
It's the same reason why all the Lemmy and Mastodon apps look way better than the web versions, because all those other parts are no longer relevant and the creator(s) can focus on just putting out a polished product.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d argue that the modular design is a more radical approach to decentralization.