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TheOneCurly
TheOneCurly @ TheOneCurly @lemmy.theonecurly.page
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How does Lemmy intregrate with the rest of the Fediverse?

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  • At the moment Lemmy and Kbin federate exactly, Lemmy communities and Kbin magazines federate 1:1 with upvotes, downvotes, comments, all working as expected.

    Mastodon users can follow communities and magazines as though they were users, post to them, and see replies. Although they see everything linearly. If you ever see a community post that starts by tagging the community that likely came from mastodon.

    Lemmy does not currently, and may never, allow you to follow mastodon users or tags. Kbin offers a microblog view that does display mastodon content in its intended form.

    • Will I be eventually able to access Threads and Bluesky from my Lemmy account?

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  • Bluesky has their own proprietary "federation" tech they'll be using, probably just with select partners. There's no news right now that they have any plans to implement ActivityPub, which is the backbone of the Fediverse.

    Threads, on the other hand, does seem like it will implement ActivityPub soon™. At the moment twitter-like and reddit-like sites don't federate super well, but I imagine that will change at some point, especially when kbin gets a little more stable. So the most immediate impact will be between Mastodon and Threads but we're not far behind.

    • Your thoughts on Visual Basic .NET?

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  • I was mostly thinking about PHP with that comment. Which has some serious issues with how modules from other files are included and general structure. It's possible to write well organized PHP projects but it takes discipline, it doesn't happen organically, and its really hard to fix once the project has grown significantly.

    I haven't used VB since VB.NET 2003 so I hesitate to speak on that directly. Professionally I work across multiple OS's and architectures so all .NET languages are kinda no-go's. That's where C++ really shines.

    • Your thoughts on Visual Basic .NET?

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  • First, of course, use whatever you're comfortable with.

    Second, a lot of that advice you see is about long-term development on large projects. Often you don't know if a little side project is going to turn into something huge but it'd be nice to have started it in something that will be more easily maintainable down the line.

    • Are we committed to Lemmy? or would we move if something better comes along?

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  • I'm committed to ActivityPub. I don't really care if the specific server backend ends up being lemmy, kbin, or something new.