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Daniel Supernault (creator of Pixelfed) is creating an open source Kbin app. This is massive! (mastodon.social)
submitted 2 years ago by Jezebelley@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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Decided I'm going to go ahead with my Kbin mobile app. Yeah I know i have a lot on the go, but I use Apollo daily, and want a solid Apollo like experience for Kbin. I'm willing to hand over the project to Kbin if they want, and would love to work closely with the developer on this if possible. Will be starting this next week, after my camping trip! It will be open source from the start, and contributors will be gladly welcomed! #kbin

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[–] Jarmer@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago

This is wonderful news! Hopefully with the kbin api improvements we could be using a high quality mobile app maybe even this summer? Maybe in the fall?

[–] solarzones@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow seems very promising. I visited pixelfed the other day. I love the design. I have faith and trust that this will be the app I use for kbin.

[–] V6277@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Afaik, PixelFed doesn't have a mobile app either, but their PWA works wonderfully. The performance is so good I forgot I wasn't using a real app.

Edit: Welp, turns out I'm outdated. While PixelFed doesn't have an official app themselves, they do have one in development (beta), and there are various third party apps for it. Thank you for letting me know!

[–] abacusswitch@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

Pixelfed does have an ios/android app but it's currently in beta. It should be out of beta within a month i think. I've used it and it's a pretty decent app.

[–] mitexleo@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Pixelfed has multiple mobile apps. See - https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps

[–] WhiteOakBayou@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I use tusky for mastodon and pixelfed on android and it works great!

[–] zekiz@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

They actually do now have a mobile app. Your information is outdated

[–] Hawne@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Massive indeed, dansup is super-competent. I love the way this is all going.

[–] joeygibson@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Give Daniel's excellent work on PixelFed, I have no doubt his kbin app will be great, as well. (Though a large part of me really wishes someone could convince Christian to rework Apollo to work with kbin/lemmy.)

[–] BigVault@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Kbin getting better by the day. Great news!

[–] SpaceCadet2000@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know who that is, but Supernault is a wicked family name!

[–] noodlejetski@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

as the very title says - creator of Pixelfed. it's Fediverse's reply to Instagram.

https://pixelfed.org/

[–] jcicle@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Can’t think of a better person to build one. Pixelfed is beautiful.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Amazing news, all the interest on kbin is honestly amazing

[–] Ferk@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Awesome!!
This is his fediverse profile as seen from kbin: https://kbin.social/u/@dansup@mastodon.social
In case other people want to also follow him from here (I just did!).

[–] kavides@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is there a way to see that mastodon post directly on kbin? I'm having trouble navigating to it.

[–] cloaker@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can navigate to the account kbin.social/u/@account@server and then navigate to the posts section of the account.

[–] kavides@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

So currently I am using kbin mostly as a PWA on my phone and it takes away the navigation part of the browser. But this is good to know for future reference, thank you!

[–] demvoter@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Try this also, try searching for “dansup” (his username) in search and his posts should show up. You can then click on “expand” to see the full thread with comments within kbin.

[–] GoodKingElliot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

Woot!

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