Because outsourcing your core business processes is a bad idea. A fediverse app that relies on a library to do all the fediverse stuff is going to have a bad time. Not straight away, but eventually.

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I'm not sure about that. Sometimes it's more about properly applying libraries. Thinking of database handling or cryptography

[–] rimu@piefed.social 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Imagine you want to write a competitor to PostgreSQL and you start out by importing SQLite into your project and building on top of that. To you it seems like a good idea because you've never written a DB app before and the only DB you've ever seen before is SQLite. You'll get a prototype real fast but you'll never build a PostgreSQL equivalent because you never learned the foundational knowledge of how a DB works and because SQLite forecloses all the pathways you need to get there.

Same thing.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 4 months ago

Imagine you want to write a competitor to PostgreSQL

That's a complete apple/oranges comparison. Fedify is an application framework.

Try "Imagine you want to write a competitor to {Mastodon/PixelFed/Lemmy/PieFed/Pleroma/WriteFreely}", and see where your analogy takes you.

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