WefWef: An Apollo Clone for Lemmy

This is really cool! Trying this for a few minutes as someone who has used Apollo for a lot of my mobile Reddit browsing over the past few years, this is accurate enough to almost fool me into thinking I'm using Apollo, despite Apollo being a native iOS app and WefWef being a web app. The image viewer is the biggest thing that feels different to me, but I'm sure it will be improved over time. Advanced settings are also missing but that's not as noticeable (in Apollo I usually set the default sort to recent). Unfortunately it has to proxy requests because of CORS but it looks like that requirement will be removed soon: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3301

Ping me when this also supports kbin.

I'm curious why someone doesn't make a federated 2.0 where there's basically a centralized store for usernames, server lists, taxonomies on servers, etc... like maybe there could be local and global taxonomies, like lemmysub for a Lemmy subreddit, then any server that is part of the Lemmy universe would have to use unique sub names. Kbin which uses different software could also use that taxonomy if it wanted and then it'd tap into all the channels across multiple servers.

The idea is kinda like a hub and spoke, I mean you could do something like Blockchain but a non profit that strictly is setup to be non partisan about the content being stored (except child porn related), all the actual news and feeds would be stored on other servers.

could also be there a microblog thing built in, maybe hashtags are global, for things like channels - it would list every post in the format: title:server:id or have some sort of easy way to merge content across instances by taxonomies.

sure, everybody hates centralization but having a central unmoderated stream that then goes out to servers to moderate how they see fit, seems like the best possible Reddit replacement. The best feature of Reddit is one single group per topic, generally.

on Facebook there's like 500 groups about WordPress, for example. Should you just join all 500? Silod content is better IMHO because it's easier not to miss out on things. It speaks to the FOMO, and is probably what makes Reddit so addictive.

The link to the github repo is hidden under settings

https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef

if you're curious about how to change what instance it's pointed at, click on "lemmy.world" at the bottom.

Hey this actually looks pretty good