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Should PeerTube focus on third-party app development instead of an official app? (literature.cafe)
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Currently, there's an official PeerTube app, but I have been wondering if they should instead potentially consider an alternative strategy similar to what Lemmy has done.

The proposal is this:

Instead of maintaining an official PeerTube app, what if PeerTube focused instead on being the core system and API, while encouraging third-party developers to create various client apps?

PeerTube could then concentrate on managing and improving the web app, api, etc.

Potential benefits of this approach:

  1. Diverse ecosystem of apps catering to different user preferences
  2. Reduced workload for the core PeerTube team
  3. Increased community involvement and innovation

Potential drawbacks:

  1. Lack of a "standard" mobile experience
  2. Possible fragmentation of the user base
  3. Quality control challenges

What are your thoughts on this idea? Would this approach better serve the PeerTube community and align with the project's goals? How might this impact PeerTube's growth and adoption?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

An official PeerTube app that's actually just named "PeerTube" on the app store, is a big selling point. so I would say they should definitely focus on an official app. Just look at Pixelfed and what happened once the official app went live.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think PeerTube has an API. I haven't looked at it, but they have quite an extensive documentation and connectors to programming languages like Kotlin:

https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api/rest-getting-started

This might have been done already.