I'm curious if anyone feels like sharing stuff.
I will say this: Even though it has been rocky at times, I think for the most part the site is in a pretty good place. I'm glad most people here kinda have the same idea as me and just trying to have a good time, talk about random stuff without having to make every single thing into a huge debate or whatever. I see a lot of respectful and mostly good discussions without people resorting to calling some a fascist or some other annoying thing. We've got so much hostility everywhere on the internet, I'm glad almost everyone here just vibes and shares cool shit ya know?
Lemmy currently supports Federation, but the Hexbear devs forked it right before that happened.
TIL. glad they got that worked out. Any timeline for the hexbear devs to rebase it? I understand things are rocky rn.
No idea, my impression for the last few months has been that all development has been paused, but I could be wrong.
It's unfortunate because it's been my strong opinion that federation should have been a top priority feature. It likely would have prevented some of the major schisms that have happened, cause people could set up a new instance and still hang out here instead of just leaving forever. It would also open up the "pipeline" that people want Hexbear to be a part of, since you just need to get people somewhere on the Lemmy fediverse, rather than trying to get them to make the jump to a pretty niche communist forum with both feet.
Yeah that’s an excellent point. I believe like half the devs stepped away after the last schism which is why dev is slow rn. Hope to see it improve though.
As nice as that would be, I think that the fork was a major mistake; although I sorta understand their reasoning which was "Using Rust makes it difficult to recruit more devs", but now we don't have any devs at all. Things are in a bit of a no man's land, since Hexbear has some much needed moderation features and things like pronoun tags that would go away if we reverted to mainline Lemmy. Would be nice to be closer to mainline Lemmy so we could still get updates (like federation), but still have the additional tools that were developed (I think Lemmy merged some of them in, but not everything).
Is Hexbear using something besides Rust now?
I think they started rewriting everything in Node or a framework like that while mantaining full compatibility with the Lemmy API, not sure if it ever got deployed (you can check the repo).
oof that's an interesting move.