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Supporting Lemmy API #115

Closed erlend-sh closed 3 months ago

erlend-sh commented 1 year ago

Any interest in supporting the Lemmy API as an alternative to Reddit?

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/building-a-better-r-rust-together/95194

freedit-dev commented 1 year ago

I have a little interest but I don't know how can I help.

erlend-sh commented 1 year ago

Looks like others are looking into the same thing: https://github.com/burhan-syed/troddit/issues/167

https://github.com/derivator/tafkars

freedit-dev commented 1 year ago

@erlend-sh I don't know what your plan is. Find a new place that users could post and comment? Or it must support ActivityPub? Or it has all old posts from r/rust?

erlend-sh commented 1 year ago

we are setting up a Lemmy instance as an alternative to /r/rust
It supports AP, which means it’s connected to the fediverse of 10 million users.
We probably don’t need all old posts, just new ones.

On that last point, that’s where tafkars by @derivator comes in. If existing Reddit clients can learn to talk with Lemmy as well, then people’s browsing experience could continue with minimal friction.