Diving Into the World of Lemmy

submitted by Kristof Zerbe edited

kiko.io/post/Diving-Into-the-World-of-Lemmy/

Slightly triggered by the post My blog now has Lemmy comments, I thought it would be a good idea to take a closer look at another great representative of the Fediverse world: Lemmy. Of course, also with an eye on the possibility of developing another Mentions United Provider Plugin, along the lines of what “Coship” can do, I also can do and that for everyone ;) ...

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Leraje

There was some talk awhile ago of the devs maybe extending feeds beyond Communities to Posts and Comments too but I don't think it ever got off the ground. Would certainly be way easier to do what I think you want if they did exist.

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Kristof Zerbe [OP]

I have no problem with an API. It's better than a feed. But the payload of the API seems too high to me in times when we should pay attention to resources. Redundancies should always be prevented by clever design.

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morrowind

Hey I'm the coship guy (coshipmate?). I also found out the hard way the lemmy api doesn't respond if you're missing some parameters. Actually the most helpful thing was opening up photon and just seeing the network requests it sent.

I’ve used a few platforms in my life and am currently mainly on Mastodon and Pixelfed, but Reddit, the role model for Lemmy, was never one of them. It seemed very confusing and complex to me and I had the same feeling with Lemmy. It’s all a bit different from Mastodon, but that’s mainly because you have to deal with another level here, the communities.

Yeah funny how that works. I find twitter, and thus mastodon very confusing. There's no organization or discoverability except what's added on by hashtags (very inconsistent) or algorithms (don't exist on mastodon).

Lemmy doesn't care about users, only communities. You can't even follow them (which can be quite annoying when things like wordpress join the fediverse, but make blogs "users" even though they can have multiple authors, and now you can't follow them through lemmy)

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Kristof Zerbe [OP]

Hi mate :) thanks for giving me initial ignition to get into Lemmy and writing the Mention United provider plugin for it. Would love to have a look on your solution.

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morrowind

It's like two 2 js functions, I can dm you the code if you want

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Kristof Zerbe [OP]

👍

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