I believe there is still an open issue on Github for this, but no one was interested to help implement and test it. So use the search function and contribute!
Lemmy maintainer
I believe there is still an open issue on Github for this, but no one was interested to help implement and test it. So use the search function and contribute!
Please open an issue for this if there isn’t already one. Then I can have a look once the summer holidays are over.
Interop with microblogging is not the main purpose of Lemmy. The main purpose is to have a federated Reddit, with federation between Lemmy instances. That it can also connect with other platforms like Mastodon is more like a neat side effect.
We created Lemmy from the very start with federation in mind. But it was always meant to be a Reddit alternative, which means community focused. I don’t see any reason to add user following when that’s already supported by a dozen other Fediverse platforms, and would only dilute our main focus. I believe in the Unix philosophy: do one thing and do it well.
Activitypub is based on Activitystreams, and doesn’t define any types of its own. Lemmy is fully compliant with the Activitypub standard as far as I know.
Not true.
Right the standard is even more vague than I remember. Unfortunately it’s the only thing we have.
Mastodon is a more mature software so they probably had more time to work on extra features like cross-platform federation.
You would think so, but afaik Mastodon hasn’t made any changes to federation in years. Which means it is left to other projects like Lemmy to reverse engineer whatever Mastodon is doing and implement that, no matter what the standards say.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#public-addressing
Next time try reading the spec before asking.
Lemmy actually marks votes as private for federation, but it seems that kbin/mbin ignore that.
Do you have a link? The Piefed docs page is empty for me.
@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works This. If youre interested to work on this feature or others, feel free to ask for guidance in the relevant issue, or in the dev chat.
I think Lemmy is attractive enough, but that only matters when people actually want to join something new. Thats currently not the case, so for better or for worse we have to wait for another wave.
Users need to be approved by a mod before they can follow, browse or post in the community.
I could certainly see a feature like this implemented as a plugin. But it would need someone to volunteer for the programming work.
I think no one ever opened an issue for such a feature, so please go ahead and do that.
Posting links with no attached (body) text
We could easily add a community setting to make the body mandatory. I suggest you open an issue for that.
This, now we have school holidays and my kids are home 24/7. Takes a lot of time and energy to keep them entertained.
I pay around 80€ per month for the lemmy.ml server, plus a few euros for image hosting and domain. So that’s around 3 cents per active user.