The Threadiverse is growing again, this time offering an effort to build a new Lemmy replacement from scratch, with API compatibility.

Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy’s Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of choice.

  • spaduf@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Lemmy had 4 years of development to iron out bugs

    Lemmy had 4 years to accrue technical debt and make foot-guns first-class features. A rewrite is probably exactly what it needs.

      • spaduf@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I have and if I’m honest I’m probably a little bit too harsh. I think the bigger issue is honestly the priorities of the dev team. There’s good reason that this project is focussing on moderation tooling.

          • spaduf@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            11 months ago

            Some things that seem hard to argue with:

            • A mod panel with things like ‘add moderator’ (maybe this could be attached to the new moderator view?)
            • Targeted reports (choose who receives it; admin/moderator)
            • Moderation actions on jerboa
            • Moderator edits. There’s a fine line here and I can understand why you wouldn’t want total edit capabilities but it’d be nice to at least be able to do things like mark as nsfw and add content warnings. This sort of feature should also probably target megathreads
            • Private communities (I know local only communities are in the works but there’s a whole mess of other criteria that would be useful)

            My own personal wishlist:

            • Karma requirements
            • First class wikis
            • Hashtags (I actually think a super simple stopgap solution here is to just have them link to the appropriate search page)
            • Flairs

            There’s some other stuff that I have seen PRs for and I do understand y’all are working hard. I appreciate the work you’ve done so far and the communities you’ve helped build. The Internet is undoubtedly a better place for it.

      • 0ops@lemm.eeEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Magically no, but sometimes a clean slate is easier than a refactor. I’m speaking generally though, I’ve never looked at Lemmy’s code, and I’m not even who you originally replied to.