Lemmy Lead Developer and father of two children.
I also develop Ibis, a federated wiki.
Message Customization: Send any custom message in Morse code.
Morse Code Decoder: Convert received Morse code into readable text.
Neat, this means you can talk to someone in morse code without having to learn it. Did anyone try how well it works in practice?
Good point, this is one of those features which is already implemented in the backend but not added to lemmy-ui yet. Made a pull request for it.
Lemmy has an open API, and instance admins have even more data available by accessing the database directly. One of the lemmy.world admins is also working on a feature for vote analytics, though at Lemmy’s current size it seems very low priority.
I thought about that too, have to figure out how it can be implemented (im not very good at frontend stuff).
No worries. Make sure to follow the documentation on join-lemmy.org for development, and use the release/v0.19 branch for both lemmy and lemmy-ui as the main branch is currently broken due to 1.0 changes.
Makes sense. My idea is to use a fixed order for the different types of results, eg always put communities first, then users etc. What do you think? For communities it would make sense to display the short description as well, and for users both post and comment count?
The tabs could make sense, but then they should be between the search bar and results, because each tab has the same buttons. You can make a pull request with what you have so far and then we can discuss it in detail.
Right, this is because it currently uses two separate api calls for search and resolve object. It will be fixed in 1.0 with https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5752.
Yes exactly.
Its basically a collection of communities, so you can browse multiple related communities at the same time. Piefed already implements this under a different name:
This is already implemented, admins can specify a “suggested” multi-community which will be shown next to Subscribed/Local/All just like you say.
The lifecycle of open-source software development is well-established in lore if not in fact: under- or unpaid developers work on a project that started as a labor of love. The love disappears, and the labor quickly turns to animosity and dread, as Git repos devolve into loud, angry people demanding this or that, reporting bugs but not contributing to fixing existing ones, and always the politics, politics, politics.
That might be true for some open source projects, but I personally am still very happy to work on Lemmy. If there are loud or angry people on Github we quickly ban them so that has never be a real problem. And politics on Lemmy are easy to block if you want to.
I’ll back up a moment. I am not naive. I will ever conflate lemmy, or really any open-source software written by a small handful of volunteer or underpaid developers, with stability. And that’s OK. I accepted the fact that I would be in for a few bumps and scrapes here and there: like the time a new lemmy UI version was released that cocked up any form fields, resulting in a shitty UI experience. Or the time that the lemmy backend would just fuck around and die, taking others down with it in a spectacular blaze of error messages, all cryptic to me. Or the time when never-ending scrolling was dismissed because one person who happens to be the main developer just does not want it.
The vast majority of Lemmy servers are absolutely stable. Lemmy.ml has been running for 6 years now and there have never been any problems like you describe. Maybe you have corrupt hardware or something, but its definitely not something you can blame on the Lemmy software. You should join the admin chat, people there can probably help you to resolve the problem.
Concurrently, as lemmy.fan slowly grew and went through its adolescent phase, development on lemmy became less predictable and eventually stalled to the point where significant bugs and other issues were, and still are, being neglected as lemy version 1 is developed. I will NOT be that loud, vocal, open-source criticizer who laments the lack of work and progress from underpaid developers not giving into my demands and wants, so I began to research other options.
Development is definitely not stalled, there were 87 pull requests merged and 66 issues closed just in the last month. The only unresolved issues are very minor or only affect the development version. And there is a lot of progress on 1.0, it will include many features such as private communities and multi-communities.
He is right though, 5000 USD per month for an instance with 12k monthly active users is completely unrealistic, or it is run very inefficiently. mastodon.world is a similar size and costs much less than 2300 Euro per month (which includes numerous other instances like lemmy.world etc).
Many of these are already implemented in Lemmy, others are too controversial and wont be added (such as karma).
We are currently preparing the 1.0 release which will have lots of major new features, such as private communities, multi-communities and much more. Although 0.19 is also getting constant updates with smaller improvements, for example 0.19.11.
Can you say which mod tools Piefed has that are missing from Lemmy?
You can write a script for this:
# loop through all post
GET https://lemm.ee/api/v3/post/list?limit=50&sort=New&community_name=fedigrow&page=*page*
# take `post.ap_id` for each item
# then fetch it over activitypub on the other instance
GET https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/resolve_object?q=*urlencode post.ap_id*
# same thing for comments
GET https://lemm.ee/api/v3/comment/list?limit=50&sort=New&community_name=fedigrow&page=*page*
# again fetch
GET https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/resolve_object?q=*urlencode comment.ap_id*
Im not familiar with Wikidata, but with enough development time it could probably also be recreated as a Fediverse project.
Thanks :)
I developed the Android app for Syncthing years ago. But then I didnt have time (or motivation) for that anymore. Developing Lemmy is much more interesting for me really nowadays.