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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/4522403

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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[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 39 points 9 months ago

Please give me one example of how sublinks is better than lemmy currently for use.

(I don't understand why new software instead of improving lemmy.)

[-] spiderman@ani.social 29 points 9 months ago

It's always good to have alternatives. Healthy competition can make them grow better too.

[-] doidera@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 9 months ago

Healthy competition can make them grow better too.

how?

[-] Arcka@midwest.social 21 points 9 months ago

One way would be by implementing features the Lemmy devs have no interest in such as better interoperability with other fediverse platforms. If any added feature turns out to be well received and in demand, it would pressure the others to implement similar.

[-] doidera@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 9 months ago

you are aware that what you linked is up to mastodon to implement? nothing to do with Lemmy.

[-] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 months ago

Not really, Kbin (which also similar to core function as Lemmy) has better interoperability with Mastodon.

Nutomic, Lemmy dev, reject that idea. Quoted from himself: "Like you said, Kbin already supports this. No need to reimplement it in Lemmy, definitely wouldnt be worth all the effort."

[-] doidera@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 9 months ago

And akkoma works perfectly with Lemmy where mastodon doesnt even understand groups

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -1 points 9 months ago

i've never looked into using my akkoma to interact with lemmy, but i quite like using mastodon.

[-] doidera@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 9 months ago

Akkoma support activitypub groups. Properly.

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -1 points 9 months ago

i don't get what you mean: i quite like having every comment robbed of context and fed to me reverse-chronologically, only to reveal context and display chronologically when clicked

i understand some people might find it jarring, but what do you mean by "properly"?

[-] doidera@lemmy.eco.br -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Akkoma only shows the topic OP in your timeline, when you click you can see all comments. While mastodon boosts every reply flooding your timeline.

Akkoma suports activitypub articles, So you can actually read lemmy posts without leaving akkoma. While Mastodon only shows the article title and link, you are obliged to leave mastodon to read it.

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -1 points 9 months ago

yea, i prefer the mastodon method.

[-] doidera@lemmy.eco.br -1 points 9 months ago

seriously? do you follow any large group in mastodon? do you prefer your timeline flooded with a single group discussion?

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 0 points 9 months ago

seriously.

I am subscribed to the biggest communities on Lemmy.world. I keep Lemmy communities in a list, and hide them from my main timeline.

see attached pictures

[-] doidera@lemmy.eco.br -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Here on Lemmy you prefer the comments timeline?

I mean, mastodon doesn't have a method for groups. It just happens to show federated ActivityPub note type

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 2 points 9 months ago

when i want to find interesting conversations, i interact through mastodon. when i want to space out and scroll memes i open jerboa.

i don't care much for any of the interfaces on lemmy except the search function, which, unlike mastodon, can search comment text without hashtags.

[-] Arcka@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago

Which comment in the issue thread leads you to believe that?

The developer's closing comment is that it wouldn't be worth it to implement that feature in Lemmy.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 9 months ago

Java, Go, TypeScript, and HTML

Different technologies. Rust is a more niche language, which is sometimes used to explain why there aren't that many contributors to Lemmy

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 16 points 9 months ago

Sure, but not one of those is a reason to use it.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 9 months ago

There is probably no reason now, but hopefully in the near future Sublinks will reach feature parity with Lemmy, and could even surpass it. Technological stack can have a huge impact on the development speed of a project.

In other words, let's wait and see

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 13 points 9 months ago

Thank you. That was very clear. I look forward to seeing the results of the developments.

[-] jgrim@discuss.online 11 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Rust may be niche now, although it's current momentum is huge, especially in the FOSS space.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 9 months ago

Sometimes improving an existing software is not always possible. One example is when the lead devs do not accept the proposed features. Another scenario is when a dev team is too onerous to work with. I am not involved in this project so I do not know the background here myself so I can only make a few educated guesses.

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