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  • It’s only useful with the ModeratorView type. I haven’t heard more than just a few using it for anything other than for moderation purposes. It is useful for some type of bots, for example. But I think they should opt in for a solution with the upcoming plugin system (for example a webhook) or with mentions. Polling this endpoint is not very efficient and it is very possible to even miss some comments.

    So I think this endpoint should be just for the modview type and authorization should therefore be required.

    Or the rate limit should be more fine tunable. There are like only 4 configurable rate limits that encompass all endpoints.












  • No, the MAU (which is what I assume you meant) seems to be going down very slowly. Though it probably will start going up once again someday. Possibly when the new digg is released to the public or when Reddit pulls another shit that not even the current Redditors will be able to tolerate.

    I personally don’t have a problem with the current state. I like it here. I recognize lots of people every day comment and post. It feels cozy.




  • It’s an alternative to Reddit in the Fediverse.

    The Fediverse is a network comprised of such software (Lemmy, Mastodon, PieFed, PixelFed, etc.)

    Federation is the ability for different platforms to communicate using an agreed upon language (in the Fediverse, this language is called ActivityPub).

    So if Instagram and Twitter were federated, you’d be able to post your photos on Instagram and have them also be on Twitter, all without having a seperate account at Twitter. All the likes and comments on Twitter will be available on Instagram and vice versa.

    And because of this, servers (or instances of platforms) are not really dependant on each other. So even if lemmy.world were to shut down, every other instance will still operate just fine. For example, I run my own Lemmy instance lemmy.asudox.dev. Even if every other Lemmy instance were shut down, my instance will still continue operating without any issues. Any new instance can then link with my instance and start federating. The power of decentralization.

    A nice video explaining the Fediverse by the Peertube team: https://framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD


    The video and my explanation are over simplifications. Federation will not work between all instances the same. Mastodon and Lemmy don’t federate fully. For example, Mastodon has no communities. Mastodon users just post (or “toot”, like “tweet” in twitter) on their profile. So you can’t subscribe (or follow) users in Mastodon from Lemmy nor see their posts, unless they post it in a community (which appear as just another user in Mastodon).

    If you want to know more about the technical details, check the specification for ActivityPub at W3C.