Yes, that is the general idea of the app, unifying all of your social interactions under one UI. It is foss, and I will soon be looking for contributors and issue reports, once I am ready to make the repo open to the public. I just have a few more foundations to set in place.

I have very briefly considered a browser extension, but could not figure out how to do it in a way that made sense. Perhaps it could be something that I do once the full version has been fleshed out, so I can figure out what features would make sense as an extension, vs a standalone browser/platform.

I had heard about the fediforum, and am definitely interested. Thanks for the reminder, I will look into registering.

Best place to reach me would be lovingisliving.bsky.social and lovingisliving@indieweb.social. I am not sure when I will be ready to talk about the project overall, but I am open to it down the line when things are more solidified.

Thanks for all of the info, I will definitely check out the podcasts and conference!

Fair criticism, I understand the sentiment. I know there are a lot of problems with bluesky, and one might want to distance themselves from the platform as much as possible, but the reality is that a lot of people use it, and it is the primary form of communication they have that is capable of federation.

The method of federation is seamless, but notably, it is also completely optional. Just like the rest of the fediverse, if you don't opt in to seeing the content from a bluesky user, you won't. It is based on a bluesky identity, so if you just never link ones you will never connect to bluesky in any way.

Furthermore, the platform utilizes did:web, a w3c standard that allows the unification of identities under a single url based identity (I.e., did:web:quokka.au:lumpenproletariat) whose did document can list any number of aka identities for that user. That can include a bluesky identity, or it can be any fediverse identity such as pixelfed, piefed, Lemmy, etc. Bluesky is not an integral part of the project overall, it is just a first test at cross platform federation. Your federation choices are your own.