also, it's not fragmentation. jumble has a specific target use case set, which is one thing, just like nostrudel is more of a little swiss army knife, jumble is a plain, simple and fast social feed.

the client i've been tinkering at for the last week is going to be focused on research communities. something that has a strong use case for affinity groups related to technical subjects or for use by businesses who want better than slack *and* more extensible. the key features that this requires are a full set of tools for browsing trees. jumble doesn't even try to do this, it makes threads flat, not sure if it takes care to ensure replies appear proximal to the reply target exactly but social threads don't tend to get more than 6 threads wide but a deep technical subject discussion with a dozen people could easily end up with 10-20, and UI for handling that much depth without sacrificing precision is very specific. so i'm combining discloser trees and miller columns to allow users to dig down into threads. threads are almost on the border with CGI programming, because of how many edges the graphs can have.

so, point being, you wouldn't use a client with advanced thread navigation just to shitpost. you'd use something that is shitpost-focused. jumble is definitely shitpost-focused, it covers all the main things, galleries, polls, etc.

if you make your scope too broad in any software project you never get to the end and nobody is satisfied with it (nostrudel passed that point about a year ago). so it's important to have some central guiding razor to decide what sort of thing should go in and what should not.

more than likely, down the track nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl you'll probably steal the tree browsing UI design i make for my technical discussion client. but i have to build it yet. literally only just came up with the idea this morning.

partly also because just trying to outdo an existing client is a lonely, and probably fruitless journey. much better to put a frame around it and - there. this does that thing really well.

i love graphs and trees and building UIs that let you browse them are still... not common. Apple is probably the software company that i can point to and say "they have done navigation in almost everything exactly right".

also, just sayin, but you can vomit a basic kind 1 thread client that you can post and react and reply and repost and quote, in about 5 days of vibe coding. it's just uh. lol. nothing special. so, there will likely be an endless procession of experimental clients for a while until some killers pop up.