Edit: Removed the photos due to lemmy crawler displaying the toot.

  • schizo
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    1 month ago

    There are some. Mastodon has a lot of garbagey nonsense, but they do at least have a proper API which will let you make a non-shit front end if you wanted.

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        1 month ago

        Well, Lemmy’s front end talks to it’s back end via an API, which is pretty much how every web app of any scale works these days.

        There’s really not any particular difference between a monolithic app vs a seperate front end in terms of “all those API calls” since everything is basically calling APIs at this point, if they’re not made by complete incompetents. (In the case of Mastodon, though, I suppose complete incompetent is possible.)

      • Xylight@lemdro.id
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        1 month ago

        photon doesn’t directly communicate with the backend, it’s not intended for that. but even then, lemmy-ui is almost entirely client side (for some reason) and it makes its calls to the API