someone is working on a reddit api compatibility shim so reddit apps could connect to Lemmy without redesigning their apps
https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy
“Tafkars stands for “The API formerly known as…”, is written in Rust and is pronounced like “tough cars”. Tafkars is an API proxy that allows apps to talk to Lemmy through a familiar API from a kinder time. The hope is that this will make it easy for app developers to support Lemmy with only minimal code changes.” @fediverse
Interesting, I wonder how they’ll handle communities being decentralized.
Communities themselves are not really decentralized, are they?
Kind of, in the sense that once populations booms, there could be many communities covering the same topic. Which has both upsides and downsides.
Since I’ve joined lemmy, I’ve been thinking about some kind of “community merging” feature.
A “meta community” would be able to “follow” other communities across the fediverse and posts from followed communities would show up in the “meta community’s” feed. Posts from followed communities would remain on their original instances, or they could be duplicated to the meta community’s instance.
There are a lot of details to work out, but I think this would add a lot more usability to lemmy and the fediverse as a whole
I think a good solution would be to let communities mirror other communities. If several instances have similar communities, each community could choose to mirror the other on their instance. But I am no programmer, so maybe it is more complicated than it seems.
I’ve thought about that too, hopefully they can implement that sort of feature.
I guess this will be sorted out by itself, as people will be joining the most active communities regarding a topic - at one point the least actice communities of a topic will “die” out.
they kind of are, each post originates from the instance of the OP not the community
for example if you click this icon on any post or comment, you’ll see the actual native URL of it
notice that this post is actually https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon/statuses/110529759862782876 even though the community is https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse
the native URL is what you need in order to share a post with other people so they can paste it in their own instance’s search box
The individual communities, no, but where they are hosted is decentralized.
Might not be a big UX problem. If Apollon or RIF had their own instances, and defaulted the feed to “all,” not local, then the experience would probably feel similar to a lot of folks.
But Apollo’s instance might also have a million+ folks, so that could be a performance problem.
@emberwit @Ghostalmedia well they are in the sense that any account from across the fedi can contribute to them. I just posted this topic from my single user mastodon instance
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Couldn’t they just treat them as subreddits? Subs are essentiallly their own communities already