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[Lemmy] New NLnet funding for Lemmy (join-lemmy.org)
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[–] BrikoX 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Some good issues getting funding. Like multi-communities, plugin system and ease discovery of federated communities.

Post tags have potential, but proposed RFC limits tagging ability to admins/community moderators, which I suspect will lead to many issues.

Probably unpopular opinion, but private communities are a bad idea. Inevitably, it will lead to pay to access. And the proposed RFC goal, is "use case for talking among friends or within organizations", which is better served with DM groups anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I honestly think the plugin system is the most important thing. It can bring developers from other languages, and it's a far less extreme solution than forking the project.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Great news! Especially the multi communities!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hats off to the EU for funding both this and the recently announced Fediscovery, along with many other Fediverse developments (a personal favourite being Seppo!).

For those unfamiliar, it's basically money from the European Commission. The Commission, as part of Horizon Europe, has a project called Next Generation Internet (NGI). NGI funds an independent organizatio,n NLnet, which takes the money from its sponsors and funds a variety of projects. NLnet is also sponsored by other actors (at least Switzerland); you can check each individual project funding on their website.

So if you're a European tax payer, you're helping create this common good through your taxes. Thanks! :)

[–] BrikoX 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fediscovery is needed, but the project being led by Mastodon is concerning. Mastodon often refuses to follow ActivityPub standards and bullies people into accepting their flawed FEPs by "reminding everyone" of their size of the user base.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think they find themselves in a position they didn't really ask for by being so huge that they're suddenly defining a lot of things. With that many users depending on your product, change necessarily becomes slower and you have to test things to a whole different level before implementing anything. I kind of see why it can be tricky to make technical changes to their ActivityPub implementation at this point, especially as people are yelling left and right for different and often contradicting features.

Sure, it has some negative consequences, but Mastodon's success is still only a good thing, and I don't think there's any good reason at all to expect bad intent from any of it's developers.

In other news, I'm getting really tired of all the shit they're receiving.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I notice the previously mentioned new frontend, lemmy-ui-leptos, is not mentioned. I guess that's good, I don't think the UI needs a rewrite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I really hope for well implemented multicommunities and community discovery. Discovering communities is hard on lemmy and when you do manage to find a relatively big amount of interesting communities you still lack a way to organise them into personalised feeds.

E: Personally I'd also be really interested in post scheduling to spread out the posts across time instead of dumping it all at once and be done with it.