"I think it's great that people are realizing if their social media app isn't talking to the fedi they needn't bother making it."
This is a bad take and you should feel bad for making it.
Snark aside: there's nothing magical about the "fediverse" and there's a lot to improve. Some of the ways that the fediverse has traditionally improved involved people going off and doing their own thing and finding ways to make it fit later.
@hrefna Good point! I think that one of the big shifts has been that people are wanting to be interoperable. I mean, they could've been adding RSS to their things for years, but it wasn't groovy so often got overlooked.
@hrefna If I squint, I kinda believe it, though not in the obvious way. Social media has network effects that might prevent traction on a superior alternative to Fedi.
I think other apps should at least bridge to Fedi. Indeed, /preferably/ bridge, rather than speak it natively. Even if I were writing a Fedi-specific app, I'd try to pull out the Fedi-protocol-specifics into a wrapper layer...
Maybe it could be handled at the client. I already want a client that merges network feeds.