[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Thanks a lot! I'm exciting to get getting back into focusing on it :)

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I only played it for a little early on and had meant to pick it back up. That sucks!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I see signups but no activity. I'm not really sure it's growing but people are trying it.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Great summary!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I tried that the but API lacked a lot of features that they were too busy to add, like proper pagination to find the latest changes, etc. I started a project like that first called socialcare.cloud but have since shut it down in favor of Sublinks.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Java isn't my preferred language. I did learn Rust to try to contribute but found the code base in less than ideal state and the process of contributing to risky. They don't always accept all PRs. I also have low faith in the success of Lemmy due to it's poor QA process and it's major lack of features.

I believe Java is the best option for this type of application, I almost did it in PHP. My goal was to attract as many people as possible to want to contribute. It's worked, I have a ton of people contributing in some way, Sublinks roadmap is clear and organized, and we have a super-motivated and driven team.

We won't fail.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

People were reaching out to me to try to understand these details so I just made a blog post to just point people to.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

We have 13 contributors with Sublinks so far. I expect more will come after the announcement.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
  1. I referenced the Rust code to determine what was sent and received. We're implementing better code logic; we're not just copying their API. We want to be compatible to attract users and support all the hard work used to create Lemmy phone apps.
  2. Java is for the core Sublinks API/core. Golang is being used for the federation service that operates independently. Once it's done, it will be platform agnostic if someone else wants to use the federation service for their fediverse project. They communicate through a message bus.
  3. Yes, we plan to do the new API correctly. We will support Lemmy's API for as long as it is relevant, primarily for mobile apps.

Multiple domains aren't possible yet, but that doesn't mean we cannot add it later.

I'm unhappy with the Lemmy roadmap, development speed, and quality. I wanted to contribute but found it difficult to. I did the next best thing and created a somewhat drop-in replacement with a much larger community of developers who are willing to support it.

You can see the complete Sublinks roadmap here: https://github.com/orgs/sublinks/projects/1. The first release of parity (v0.10) will use the existing Lemmy front-end. All releases after that will no longer support the Lemmy UI because that's when the enhanced features start to roll in. We don't want to support or fork the current Lemmy UI.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Exactly, we already had 13 contributors working on it before it was announced.

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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.

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As winter continues, I think more and more about how nice it was to sit outside, drink coffee, and take pictures of birds that came by.

This is one of my favorite ones.

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How is everyone? (discuss.online)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Today is a good day. I'm feeling talky... what's going on?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This is the first of the monthly financial reports. This one is short and sweet; I'll provide more details next time.

These costs include hosting for:

  1. discuss.online (lemmy)
  2. discuss.online (matrix)
  3. wiki.discuss.online (open wiki)
  4. utter.online (mastodon)
  5. social.photo (pixelfed)
  6. Sublinks.org (sublinks)
  7. participating.online(wiki)

Expenses for November

  • Hosting: $575.32
  • Github: $436.16
  • Email: $21.45
  • Total: $1,032.93

Income for November

  • OpenCollective: $65
  • Patreon: $15.11
  • Total: $80.11

Year-to-date

  • Year-to-date total expenses: $4,087.63
  • Year-to-date total income: $454.77
  • Year-to-date balance: -$3632.86

Donations... if you can spare it

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!IMPORTANT! Please Read (discuss.online)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Lemmy doesn't provide any analytics. Give this post a like and/or comment if you use this instance. I'm trying to gauge usage by humans.

I'll let this census run for about a week to gauge usage.

Results might cause different changes to the services.

I'm doing this because the cost of running this instance is higher than most other instances due to reliability and disaster recovery implementations. I'm curious if I should back down many of these costs if we're not used fully. I don't see much activity directly in this instance.

I know that discuss.online wasn't listed on join-lemmy.org for about a month due to a bug with the Lemmy crawler. They just recently fixed it with their redesign. We are now listed but no longer featured.

tl;dr; is this instance dying? Let me know if you're here.

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I usually update right away to the latest versions of stuff; however, I’m afraid that things will break. Apple has been making greater and greater changes each release that are breaking stuff I’ve used for years.

For example, the GPGTools won't work on Sonoma. See: https://gpgtools.org/sonoma

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

We are running the latest release candidate for Lemmy, version 0.19.0-rc.1. This release candidate includes many changes.

Every release comes with its own challenges; however, it resolves previous ones. We hope this release will resolve a longstanding issue with sync not working, causing a lot of manual work from the admins to keep things in sync.

Please let us know if you experience any weird behavior.

Some known issues so far are:

  • HTML entities characters in posts bodies (Changing & to &)
  • The spoiler tag crashes the site if used in the sidebar
  • Mobile apps are borked again

Update 10/25/2023

  • We are now running release candidate 3.
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[Contest] New Banner! (discuss.online)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Let’s have a two-week contest for a new community banner!

The current banner on this community is a photo I took. I want to open it up to community members to submit a photo. You can put your logo in the corner or a link to your site.

You can vote to keep the current one; however, I’d love to rotate the community one monthly with a monthly contest.

Submit your photos to this thread. The photo with the most votes will be made the banner.

The content ends at the end of this month. The winner will be made the banner for September. Mid-September, we’ll start the contest for October, etc.

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Did you know that Discuss.Online has a Matrix server?

If you're not familiar with Matrix you can read more here: https://matrix.org/about/

Matrix is a federated real-time chat server.

Join the community space! Go to: https://matrix.to/#/#community-channels:discuss.online.

Need a username? Contact @[email protected] or comment on this post. A registration code will be sent to you for [yourhandle]@discus.online

Matrix Clients Discuss.Online provides two web based client options. You can find more at: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

Here are the Discuss.Online hosted ones:

See you there!

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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Does anyone have a suggestion for a tripod they use? My largest lens is the Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Sports Lens for Canon EF with the Canon 5D IV body.

I'm looking to take sturdy shots at a distance. I sometimes put my 7D on the lens and try to get that crop factor zooming.

I've been poking around but nothing has caught my attention yet. I'll keep looking for blogs and things. Looking for real-world suggestions though.

Thanks!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I'm past the refund period. I wish I knew this sooner.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah, there is a massive movement right now. It'll get there. I have tech friends that don't quite get it. It's so simple for me. I'm struggling to find an easy way to explain in.

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