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I would say this is far too generalized. Since you seem very smart you might want to reflect on this. The issues that lemmy solves are still prevalent outside of it and you are speaking from a place of privilege imo since you (as am I) are educated enough to make it here, build stuff and change things. We are the minority and we should not go running away before the world can catch up.
I disagree, respectfully though since you make good points. I think it is already enough to index the servers you have federated with. For example, my own instance federates with world. I want to be able to see all communities, not posts or comments, that are on world, together with a rought member and post count. That way I can make an informed decision. I think you are making this too much a low level decision. The reason we are all here and the ultimate goal of lemmy and the fediverse imo is agency, nothing else. And that is what we should be striving for.
I have to run but I might come back to this later to answer the rest. I think we're pretty constructive together. Maybe we should connect on github or something. I'm working on another fediverse thing.
See ya later. Feel free to send me a dm if you like.
Oh, I'm not saying the issues it solves aren't important, I'm saying it's focusing on the wrong goals.
What I want out of lemmy is a credible Reddit alternative (so link aggregator with comments), that will be around long term with minimal disruption. It succeeds as a link aggregator, I'm worried about longevity based on its design.
Lemmy also had a goal of being on ActivityPub. Link aggregators (I assume) have a ton more shared data than something like Mastodon. But I don't know for sure, I haven't hosted either, it's just a hunch. Likewise, people already complained about having to deal with a ton of instances on Mastodon, which seems to be an adoption issue for new users. Those aren't solveable with lemmy as designed since they're quirks of federation, but it was probably a faster way to get something out.
Ok, that's pretty reasonable. I'm not sure how syncing those statistics would go without subscribing, but it's probably not a ton of work.
But isn't that essentially what [Lemmy Explorer] (https://lemmyverse.net/instance/lemmy.world/communities) is for? You get all of that info, and can narrow by instance if you want, even if your instance doesn't federate with it.
Not sure if it was you, but there's an issue for it with generally positive responses. I agree with Nutomic's concern that this could be a lot of data (world alone has >10k communities), but as another user mentioned, we could filter by active communities and drastically reduce that.
That's pretty vague IMO.
I'm here because I want Reddit, but Reddit made some choices I strongly disagree with, such as:
I honestly don't care about federation or ActivityPub, I'm just here because it replaces a service I like but refuse to use. Maybe that's what you mean by agency, but for me personally, I'd just not use any social media if lemmy didn't exist (or maybe I'd go back to hacker news).
So that's the lens I'm seeing things through. I see Lemmy as a temporary stopgap, and I'd really rather not invest a bunch of time into something I think needs to be replaced. But I do believe in cleaning up my corner of the world, so I'll contribute here and there, and I hope to donate to my instance once they accept donations (I've asked).
Perhaps. I'll save this comment so I can come back later if interested. I'm not in a position to really commit to anything right now, but perhaps starting a Matrix channel for like-minded people would be interesting.
I'd much rather keep discussions in some publicly accessible medium than over DMs, so hopefully someone else can pick up the torch when you or I inevitably lose interest.
That said, once I have a working project, I'll post it on a few relevant communities for review (probably under an alt). So you'll at least hopefully see that. I work primarily in Rust and plan to build my MVP with Tauri and Iroh, but I'm fairly comfortable in a variety of languages (Python and Typescript at my day job, lots of years with Go, looking into Haskell because FP rox and I want to study SimpleX chat).
If you want help on a project, post about it and I'll take a look. I'm comfortable with most fullstack stuff (databases, React, Docker, etc).