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| Morpho, my new BlueSky client | 2025-04-26 | false | It's with much duress that I announce I'm releasing yet-another-application, this time a BlueSky client. |
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It's with much duress that I announce I'm releasing yet-another-application, this time a BlueSky client. If you know me, I use the Fediverse a ton - so why am I playing the "other side"? My reasons are as follows:
- BlueSky is somewhat designed openly, so it's not that bad. I guess1.
- I chose to use BlueSky willingly to spread my art, so... if I have to use BlueSky, I want to do it on my own terms!
- I find the BlueSky website annoying, and it falls into the same patterns Twitter/X did.
I'm not exactly happy that we accepted yet-another-American-corporation-running-our-social-media (except with a "decentralized" coat of paint, woohoo!) As I was stepping down from my golden soapbox, I slipped on the stairs and spat out Morpho:
It's very similar to Tokodon (KDE's Mastodon client) because a lot of the code is stolen copied from it. It's also very simple for now - you can only see a text-only view of your home feed. If you're a programmer, you can check out the KDE Invent repository. For everyone else, wait a couple of weeks and I will have Flatpak and Android builds by then. Despite the code being littered with "org.kde.morpho" and being hosted on KDE infrastructure, it's not officially a KDE project right now.
My current short-term goals for it are:
- View profiles
- Write posts
- Media grid for profiles (and media in general)
And if you think this has no benefit for Tokodon, then I'm afraid you're mistaken! Thanks to writing basically-another-Tokodon from scratch2, I identified multiple areas where I could improve Tokodon's code and make it simpler.
Feel free to make fun of anyone who blindly replies and and says "there's already like, five other BlueSky apps that are named Morpho!!!", because I don't care.
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Of course, that doesn't stop them from pulling a Reddit because of their choice of licensing. This is a thing that keeps happening. ↩︎
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Three, if you count the prototype that predated Morpho! ↩︎