True a warning system makes sense.
nutomic
joined 4 years ago
What sort of moderation tools are you missing in Lemmy?
Very impressive! The only thing I can remember well are places.
I’m pretty sure Nutomic was a Java dev before starting work on Lemmy and learning Rust from scratch.
That is true, I used to be an Android developer and then learned Rust by writing code for Lemmy. Are you by any chance my new stalker?
And if we're comparing the languages, the fact alone that there are no Nullpointerexceptions makes Rust infinitely better than Java for me. I also agree that this sort of copycat project will soon be forgotten. For example have you ever heard of Rustodon?
If you click on "Author Information & Copyright" there is a contact email for the author.
You can read FEP-1b12 to understand how Lemmy federation works. To make it short, these Announces are to let community followers know about all the posts, edits, votes etc which are happening in the community. You can check the audience field to distinguish from Mastodon-style boosts.
Images in Lemmy posts should be rendered correctly by Mastodon with this pr which federates the link content-type.
This is out of scope for Lemmy, there are already dozens of Fediverse projects which provide this functionality so it makes no sense to reimplement it in Lemmy as well. And if you want both follow both communities and users in the same platform, thats exactly what Kbin and Mbin provide.
The groups implementation for Mastodon has been stuck as a draft for 1.5 years now, I wouldnt expect it to get merged anytime soon. Even worse, for reasons I dont understand they made the group federation intentionally incompatible with Lemmy.
Sounds like you are looking at the api tests then. There are also unit tests which you can run with ./scripts/test.sh. The database is a fundamental part of Lemmy, so its obviously required for many of the unit tests. It may be possible to mock the db, but that would be a lot of effort for very little benefit, and might even introduce additional bugs.
Dessalines is currently working on mod actions for Jerbia. Someone recently made a PR for moderator edits but it seems there was not enough interest and it was closed by the author. Better reports handling would be nice, but if you read the issue its not really clear how this should work. Private communities are on the roadmap for this year.
Karma is intentionally left out of Lemmy because it has many negative effects. Wikis make more sense as a standalone project, in fact Im working on something. Flairs are also potentially on the roadmap. For hashtags I dont really see the benefit as they would serve a very similar purpose to communities.