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Diving Into the World of Lemmy (kiko.io)
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Slightly triggered by the post My blog now has Lemmy comments, I thought it would be a good idea to take a closer look at another great representative of the Fediverse world: Lemmy. Of course, also with an eye on the possibility of developing another Mentions United Provider Plugin, along the lines of what “Coship” can do, I also can do and that for everyone ;) ...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey I'm the coship guy (coshipmate?). I also found out the hard way the lemmy api doesn't respond if you're missing some parameters. Actually the most helpful thing was opening up photon and just seeing the network requests it sent.

I’ve used a few platforms in my life and am currently mainly on Mastodon and Pixelfed, but Reddit, the role model for Lemmy, was never one of them. It seemed very confusing and complex to me and I had the same feeling with Lemmy. It’s all a bit different from Mastodon, but that’s mainly because you have to deal with another level here, the communities.

Yeah funny how that works. I find twitter, and thus mastodon very confusing. There's no organization or discoverability except what's added on by hashtags (very inconsistent) or algorithms (don't exist on mastodon).

Lemmy doesn't care about users, only communities. You can't even follow them (which can be quite annoying when things like wordpress join the fediverse, but make blogs "users" even though they can have multiple authors, and now you can't follow them through lemmy)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hi mate :) thanks for giving me initial ignition to get into Lemmy and writing the Mention United provider plugin for it. Would love to have a look on your solution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's like two 2 js functions, I can dm you the code if you want