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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Right now it's going to be for Lemmy, but the fediverse is still getting a fantastic app.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why is everyone developing apps for Lemmy and not Kbin?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

kbin lacks an API with an equivalent feature set. Ernest is aware of this and it's on the bug tracker. Any working apps for kbin are using site scraping as a temporary workaround. In layman's terms it means the app developer is doing a lot of extra work that will mostly get thrown away when the API rework is complete. Artemis is the only one currently doing this off the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

The developer of Pixelfed, @dansup, is working on a kbin app as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tbf you can see some kbin stuff from lemmy either through desktop or a mobile app, but Sync for Lemmy is planned to have kbin support too, but we'll see.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I read somewhere on here that Kbin doesn't have an API available right now and that Artemis is making their own API through scraping. That'd play a big role if it's true. I also wouldn't be surprised if migration numbers were skewed towards Lemmy either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Scraping is hard on a server though. You gotta download the entire page and all its data instead of just the info/action you requested. That's one of the reasons other websites bother to make APIs, so bots and others DON'T start just scraping them.