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The lack of keyboard interface on Lemmy is killing me, but really what I want is a good client in Emacs. However, it's beyond my Elisp to design and start such a project, but I could probably help. Anyone on it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

thanks for the link. so https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/src/api_routes_http.rs shows the paths and params, i tried them in a rest client and it's no too hard to follow.

the mastodon.el http layer isn't great, but it could be v quickly adapted for this case.

[–] asterisk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks, yes that's a more useful source than my one.

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

https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem has some basics, functions returning plain JSON. i didn't do any auth, but if its oauth and so similar to mastodon.el, we cd also just move its auth code into the fedi.el library. and fedi-http.el is already set up to handle auth tokens.

discovering lemmy's query parameters is quite a pain for me, as i don't know rust.

[–] asterisk 1 points 1 year ago

That looks a promising start. I'll have a look into it when I have some time. I hope some others do too!

I don't know Rust either, but it does appear to be relatively easy to understand; could be worse anyhow.

It would be nice to have a fully documented API to work from: probably not a priority for the lemmy devs right now, I'd imagine.