Is there any fediverse client out there (mobile or pc or web) that has support for multiple types of content, rather than just for one?
Most apps I find are only mastodon-like (including pleroma etc.), or only lemmy-like, or only peertube-like. One of the main benefits of the fediverse is that I could theoretically access all of those from one platform. But the clients I saw don’t seem to support it too well.
Unpopular Opinion:
Fuck apps.
Use web browsers.
I would be glad if a unified web client exists. Mobile app is not necessary.
I’m not actually super familiar with the unified web clients, but you could be right that one is out there, or perhaps we’re just asking too soon in the general Fediverse development cycle. In a year or two, someone might have designed something like that, perhaps with a post like this as inspiration.
But where would a unified Web client run in the first place? It would have to be installed on a Web server and, from there, access the Web servers of the various different server apps which would still be entirely different and independent installations.
For a Web client with no actual server backend, the same would go as for a mobile app: It would have to cover pretty much all features of everything. If uniting Lemmy and Mastodon in one UI seems tricky already, try adding Hubzilla and (streams) to the mix.
If you’re actually looking for a unified Web server and client, i.e. one Fediverse project that literally covers everything the Fediverse can do with one login on one server and one identity: This won’t happen.
This would be way too much for one Fediverse project to tackle. You’d basically have to start with (streams), add back all functionality that has been removed since the first fork from Hubzilla (and that’s a whole lot), make all kinds of non-nomadic protocols compatible with nomadic identity via Nomad and ActivityPub, and then gradually add all kinds of features from all over the place, from PeerTube to Funkwhale, from PieFed to Owncast, from Mobilizon to BookWyrm. And you’d have to soft-fork everything and keep them in-sync with their respective upstreams.
The outcome would be too complex for most. People would have to deal with their account/their login not being their identity because their identity is containerised in a channel. They would have to wrap their minds around nomadic identity. They would have to deal with fine-grained permissions settings. They would have a post editor that’s every bit as powerful as those on big blogging platforms when all they want to do is tweet and retweet and occasionally watch a video. And they would have tons of features on top.
The whole thing would be an utter nightmare for its developers as well, seeing as they’d constantly have to track over 100 Fediverse projects and implement any upgrades which they’ve rolled out.
There are already web clients for the fediverse, like Photon for Lemmy
For one specific Fediverse project each, yes.
But what the OP is looking for is a Web client that lets you log into Mastodon and Lemmy and PeerTube all the same. Probably one that unifies your Mastodon, Lemmy and PeerTube timelines into one, rather than listing your Mastodon timeline next to your Lemmy timeline next to your PeerTube timeline in three separate columns, TweetDeck-style.
Or maybe what the OP is looking for is a Web server and client that unites all features of Mastodon and Lemmy and PeerTube in one Fediverse project so that only one single login is needed for everything.
Neither of these exists.
I know, I was just replying to the part I was quoting. Point is, hosting that web client wouldn’t be an issue.
It would just either have to be on a server that also offers all server applications covered by the Web client so that everything has the same domain.
Or you would have to tell people to register accounts on foo.social, bar.social and/or baz.social, but the Web UI is on qux.social. Bit confusing for newbies who only knew centralised silos five minutes ago.
But wasn’t the point of the post that it should, in theory, be possible to use a single account for all the different services by having a client that supports them all, since these different services federate with each other? I don’t know if that’s currently possible without making changes on the backend but if you need different accounts for each service, even if it’s handled on the back-end, that kinda goes against the whole point of the post, no?
Man, I already run like 10 different microservices that all have their own web portal and they’re all locally hosted.
What’s one more?
I literally connect to every IRC instance through The Lounge, a locally hosted web interface for multiple concurrent IRC connections.
You could definitely do the same for a web UI for the fediverse.
Just split the difference and give me PWAs. Let The matrix tell my brain the steak is chewy and delicious.
Hubzilla and (streams) can be installed as PWAs.
So maybe an inelegantly hacked together startpage that shows all your feeds in one for the morning coffee?
ngl web apps are even worse, they’re so bloated and janky, I wish everything had a native app