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phone apps can’t use activity pub as that’s a server protocol so if you want a good mobile interface you generally speaking need a rest-y api that an application can query. yes, lemmy and piefed both feature PWA frontends that can be installed to your homescreen, however on older phones this can be an extremely suboptimal experience as PWAs tend to require more RAM than native apps.

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rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You don’t need to get rid of the server. All I’m saying is that we can have a server that uses the ActivityPub API directly instead of these ad-hoc APIs for each different use case.

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- Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  i don’t understand how that negates the utility of a mobile app that presents this information. also i’m not saying to get rid of the server-client paradigm, not sure what you’re talking about
  
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  - rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I am saying is that we can have a mobile app that can do anything that Lemmy does, but without requiring a “Lemmy API” to do it.
    
    Any “Lemmy client” could in theory read and create posts/comments/votes/moderation reports directly by interacting with the actors outboxes. The same for any “Mastodon” client, or any “PeerTube client”.
    
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