That sounds great! I really like the idea that the Fediverse can be bigger than any one platform, and that you can even switch platforms but still have a similar experience and maintain connections with the same communities. Having this kind of app support really helps make that a reality.
Really appropriate you taking the time to comment. Sometimes I feel like I’m speaking into the void here, but I really want feedback to help shape Blorp.
I likely won’t be integrating lots of Mbin and PieFed specific features. My focus will remain on building the best client I can for Lemmy. But any feature overlap between Lemmy and PieFed likely wouldn’t be super difficult to support.
But I’m not sure anyone that uses Mbin or PieFed would want to use my app if it doesn’t support their full set of features. However, if I try to optimize to all 3 platforms, I’ll likely wind up pleasing nobody. But I think I can ship a great client for Lemmy, and 80% support for Mbin and PieFed features.
I’m very much still formulating a plan if this sounds like I’m rambling.
I think there’s still value in offering some support for PieFed and Mbin, especially if apps are currently few in number or nonexistent for those services. Even if other apps come along that offer fuller feature support, there might still be a place for Blorp to offer limited support for the different platforms by allowing people to switch accounts. It seems to me like a lot of Lemmy apps let people sign-in to multiple accounts so they can quickly switch from one to another. Blorp could similarly offer that but more usefully let users easily switch from a Lemmy account to a PieFed account to an Mbin account. And if that proves popular perhaps later you could add support for more features unique to each platform.
Blorp, another Lemmy client nobody asked for