- cross-posted to:
- announcements@discuss.online
- cross-posted to:
- announcements@discuss.online
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/4522403
We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Sublinks, a groundbreaking Link Aggregation Social Network, joining the Fediverse. This innovative platform is designed to revolutionize how we share and discover online. Our dedicated team of volunteer contributors has worked tirelessly, utilizing technologies like Java, Go, TypeScript, and HTML to bring this vision to life. Sublinks promises a user-friendly interface and robust features that cater to diverse online communities. Stay tuned for our launch date, and get ready to experience a new era of social link sharing!
Sublinks will have a fully compatible API with Lemmy so all current Lemmy apps will also work with Sublinks. In fact, discuss.online will switch to Sublinks to fully replace Lemmy once we reach our Parity Milestone.
For more information, visit GitHub - Sublinks and sublinks.org.
Stay tuned for more regular updates as we progress.
Please give me one example of how sublinks is better than lemmy currently for use.
(I don’t understand why new software instead of improving lemmy.)
It’s always good to have alternatives. Healthy competition can make them grow better too.
how?
One way would be by implementing features the Lemmy devs have no interest in such as better interoperability with other fediverse platforms. If any added feature turns out to be well received and in demand, it would pressure the others to implement similar.
you are aware that what you linked is up to mastodon to implement? nothing to do with Lemmy.
Not really, Kbin (which also similar to core function as Lemmy) has better interoperability with Mastodon.
Nutomic, Lemmy dev, reject that idea. Quoted from himself: “Like you said, Kbin already supports this. No need to reimplement it in Lemmy, definitely wouldnt be worth all the effort.”
And akkoma works perfectly with Lemmy where mastodon doesnt even understand groups
i’ve never looked into using my akkoma to interact with lemmy, but i quite like using mastodon.
Akkoma support activitypub groups. Properly.
Sometimes improving an existing software is not always possible. One example is when the lead devs do not accept the proposed features. Another scenario is when a dev team is too onerous to work with. I am not involved in this project so I do not know the background here myself so I can only make a few educated guesses.
Different technologies. Rust is a more niche language, which is sometimes used to explain why there aren’t that many contributors to Lemmy
Exactly, we already had 13 contributors working on it before it was announced.
Sure, but not one of those is a reason to use it.
There is probably no reason now, but hopefully in the near future Sublinks will reach feature parity with Lemmy, and could even surpass it. Technological stack can have a huge impact on the development speed of a project.
In other words, let’s wait and see
Thank you. That was very clear. I look forward to seeing the results of the developments.
That’s like saying “Watch my new TV show, it’s better than the other shows because our scripts are printed on an Epson printer!”
Not really because these are open source projects. The one that is easier to develop for will likely get more features which leads to more users.
That being said, Java was a questionable choice IMO.