Lemmy’s code isn’t that easy to get into, otherwise there would be much more contributors to it.
The third biggest contributor after the two main devs has 59 commits.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/graphs/contributors?from=2019-02-10&to=2024-02-06&type=c
Nice project. $249 seems a bit high, but I guess it’s like the Fairphone, they can’t save as much as the large manufacturers do.
Great news, thanks for sharing
Same user, just another comment
Any example of badly moderated communities? Asking because I didn’t notice anything special.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I haven’t been there in a while
For example, Threads supports audio posts, a feature not currently supported within ActivityPub, so Meta is experimenting with “federating” a text transcription of the original post instead of the audio version.
Here we go
I kind of noticed that it’s a bit slower if the ping is high (another continent)
On which continent are you located?
Relying on !all to have your newly created community to reach most of the people could work, but using the Scaled sort as it wouldn’t have enough subscribers to push it using Hot or Active.
There is only one !newcommunities@lemmy.world, it has 15k subscribers, seems like a pretty good way to promote it.
Lemmyverse.net show both communities: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=watchreddit
It probably didn’t show up in the first place it only has 66 subscribers, and probably none on SJW.
About your second point, you indeed have to promote your community, using !newcommunities@lemmy.world, or related communities. This works quite well usually.
I will add that in your case, people knew about your community as you posted in other communities, but as discussed then, people seemed happy with the existing Reddit-focused communities.
Lots of angry comments in the post announcing Sublinks in this community, mostly criticizing Java choice
Interesting perspective
You are on SJW, are you really concerned about defederation? You guys seem to be doing well over there
I guess that’s the same for most of the userbase. Which is probably why switching to a more spread language could increase the number of contributors.
Full disclaimer: I code and work in Rust daily on the backend and frontend.
Would you and your colleagues be interested in contributing to Lemmy’s codebase? I’m genuinely asking, I’m still surprised by the low number of contributors for a project that has 40k active monthly users
To get contributors to the backend?
The ones on the Sublinks roadmap are interesting, for instance the warning system: https://github.com/orgs/sublinks/projects/1/views/7
Create a way to create a warning system for users. For example, a user gets a warning for posting a broken link multiple times. We don’t want to ban them for that. Or a admin gives a user a Warning with a reason. Create a rules system for auto actions like banning for some time or forever. Consider adding types of warnings. This should also track bans from communities for admin-level auto actions. The profile page shows strikes similar to Mastodon for Mods/Admins only and the user that owns the profile. Examples, warnings in each community, and bans. Rules will be applied to counts of warning types or total warnings over time. 3 warnings within a month is a ban for a month, for example.
There was also this list from a few months ago: https://discuss.online/post/12787?scrollToComments=true
If only… More seriously, I want Lemmy/Kbin/Sublinks to succeed, and the development rhythm of Lemmy made me perplex for a while.
A new option with a more popular language could address this.
Thank you for your perspective
Thank you for your insight. I feel like AP cares more about the community, while nostr is about the individual.
Different kind of people will choose different approaches