cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/570507
After the (temporary) defederation announcement of earlier i checked the Lemmy repo to see if there was already a ticket on the federation limiting option like Mastodon’s that people mentioned Lemmy doesn’t yet have. Not only i didn’t find it, i also saw that there’s about 200+ open tickets of variable importance. Also saw that it’s maintained mostly by the two main devs, the difference in commits between them and even the next contributors is vast. This is normal and in other circumstances it’d grow organically, but considering the huge influx of users lately, which will likely take months to slow down, they just don’t have the same time to invest on this, and many things risk being neglected. I’m a sysadmin, haven’t coded anything big in at least a decade and a half beyond small helper scripts in Bash or Python, and haven’t ever touched Rust, so can’t help there, but maybe some of you Rust aficionados can give some time to help essentially all of Lemmy. The same can be said of Kbin of course, although that’s PHP, and there is exacerbated by it being just the single dev.
I’ve been hacking a bit trying figure out activity pub, are folks interested in a programming centric ActivityPub community to focus on learning?
A place to learn about the inner workings of ActivityPub would be nice. I’d also love to be able to informally share and discuss ideas about ways to use the protocol or improvements proposals
Sounds pretty cool, if you end up making it, drop the link?
Frankly I have no time to mod a community :)
But I will keep an eye out for one if it pops up, might be reasonable to post on here for now
you can always join the programming.dev discord, and we can make a room for it!
Ive made an activitypub focused community on here over at https://programming.dev/c/activitypub
Nice! Subscribing
Edit: can’t see it on Lemmy.World yet, will have to try later
Sometimes youll need to search for it in the search bar before it pops ups. Either with the link or with !activitypub@programming.dev
That would probably be very helpful.