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Goodbye FireFish. (info.firefish.dev)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Does anyone know if Mastodon have that "multiple frontends" thing Lemmy has?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are some. Mastodon has a lot of garbagey nonsense, but they do at least have a proper API which will let you make a non-shit front end if you wanted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's not what I mean. Lemmy has two separate repositories: one for the backend, and one for the default frontend. New frontends can be written and straight-up hooked into the server's backend instead of making all those API calls. For example, see https://photon.lemmy.dbzer0.com/ vs https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, Lemmy's front end talks to it's back end via an API, which is pretty much how every web app of any scale works these days.

There's really not any particular difference between a monolithic app vs a seperate front end in terms of "all those API calls" since everything is basically calling APIs at this point, if they're not made by complete incompetents. (In the case of Mastodon, though, I suppose complete incompetent is possible.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh, I didn't realize that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

photon doesn't directly communicate with the backend, it's not intended for that. but even then, lemmy-ui is almost entirely client side (for some reason) and it makes its calls to the API