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I don't see how using an optional, open-source, non-chronological feed means that someone should just "go use Twitter". For one, the incentives are completely different between Twitter which generates revenue based on engaging users (and juicing subsequent algorithms), and someone who builds a separate feed interface for Mastodon.
>I don't get this mentality of "I like X, but I don't want to use X, so imma go turn Y into X" some devs seem to have.
Developers like to solve problems and build things. I've re-created other projects and products lots of times. Why is it a problem what someone chooses to do with their own time for their own reasons?
>Playing into people's FOMO is what got the Internet into the rat's nest
Disagree. Incentives tied to advertising-based business models is the root cause here, not FOMO.
Disclaimer: I made my own alternative timeline for Mastodon as well, so I'm pretty biased. :)
I never expected Unicorn to completely replace larger SPA frameworks, but I have found it solves for most of the use cases I need for my sites.
Thanks for checking it out -- all PRs are greatly appreciated to add new features or fix bugs!
Originally it _was_ just HTML + CSS, but I wanted each library's repository metadata (latest version, last commit, etc) to be dynamically retrieved and doing that client-side was brittle and way too slow. So, I used it as an excuse to see how far I could push my own personal static-site framework (https://coltrane.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
Maybe! I was messing with different UI approaches to relay this data and this made sense to me, but I'll see if switching to rows is more clear. Thanks for the idea!
