Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy's Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of choice.

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[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 11 points 10 months ago (9 children)

I have and if I'm honest I'm probably a little bit too harsh. I think the bigger issue is honestly the priorities of the dev team. There's good reason that this project is focussing on moderation tooling.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (8 children)

What sort of moderation tools are you missing in Lemmy?

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Some things that seem hard to argue with:

A mod panel with things like 'add moderator' (maybe this could be attached to the new moderator view?)
Targeted reports (choose who receives it; admin/moderator)
Moderation actions on jerboa
Moderator edits. There's a fine line here and I can understand why you wouldn't want total edit capabilities but it'd be nice to at least be able to do things like mark as nsfw and add content warnings. This sort of feature should also probably target megathreads
Private communities (I know local only communities are in the works but there's a whole mess of other criteria that would be useful)

My own personal wishlist:

Karma requirements
First class wikis
Hashtags (I actually think a super simple stopgap solution here is to just have them link to the appropriate search page)
Flairs

There's some other stuff that I have seen PRs for and I do understand y'all are working hard. I appreciate the work you've done so far and the communities you've helped build. The Internet is undoubtedly a better place for it.

[–] spiderman@ani.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

karma requirements and hashtags doesn't seem right since the former will make people to farm karma for the requirements which is one of the reasons why newbies on reddit always dump post until they get a decent karma. lemmy is not a microblogging site, hashtags have better use in platforms like mastadon. post flairs should be implemented though.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

hashtags have better use in platforms like mastadon

Says who? Because that's how the old platforms used it? I think we should really be moving past the direct influence of these corporate platforms and on the fediverse that probably means something of a well understood common language (like @user@instance or !group@instance). Hashtags were only ever a thing on twitter because the users just started using them and full text search was sufficient to handle it (this is more or less the position we're in on lemmy). Direct support didn't come till much later.

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