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> Is there a way to federate Hacker News? There's Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
by ernesth 6y ago
> Is there a way to federate Hacker News?
There's Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
- mariusor 6y agoThere are others too.
- sk2020 6y agoI remember talking to the author of Lemmy on Matrix before he made the github repo. Perhaps this has changed, but he didn't seem to have any actual plan for federation. The early work in the repo appeared to be a Vue or Angular frontend (I forget which) with a Reddit-like style with server-to-server communication left as a "TODO". The author seemed to me to be mostly preoccupied with writing essays about why communism is a good idea, so I assumed the author is "an ideas guy" and didn't expect any actual work to get done on the Reddit-clone. Then one day, for no obvious reason, the repo received hundreds of stars within a few hours. It was a trending Rust repo and was recognized on TWiR, but there was no actual implementation of federation at all. Just a JS frontend, and I think a tiny bit of stub code in Rust. I'm not saying there are upvote rings or botnets amongst any particular group, but I haven't paid attention to GitHub stars since then.
- gpm 6y agoThere seems to be significant and active work on federation https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/647 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/647
- sk2020 6y agoWhen this started in Spring 2019, back when hundreds of github users decided to star this repo, there was actually nothing. Just stub diesel method calls and a JS front end. I think that's what's interesting. Looking at the issues you linked, I now see that a minimal federation implementation didn't actually happen until this year (and by someone else). I'm glad I didn't wait.