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  • nutomic@lemmy.mlMtoIbis@lemmy.mlIbis as a Fediverse plug-in
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    4 months ago

    Showing authorship would be quite tricky because there might be dozens of editors, and the Lemmy ui simply doesnt have space for that. Editing articles from Lemmy would also be tricky , so yes some type of single signon would make more sense.



  • Thanks for the support. I think the era of single, centralized sources of information will soon be in the past.

    1. This would be a project on its own, with writing import scripts, hosting an instance etc. Certainly not something I have time for, just like I'm not running a Reddit mirror for Lemmy. If you or someone else wants to set it up, go ahead!
    2. How would you detect that it's the same article, only from having the identical title? That could fail in lots of ways.
    3. I agree about this.

  • nutomic@lemmy.mlMtoIbis@lemmy.mlIbis as a Fediverse plug-in
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    4 months ago

    I agree that it would make sense to integrate a wiki into Lemmy. However that's much more complicated than a standalone project, because it needs to integrate well with all the existing features. Plus it means more work for all the Lemmy developers, while Ibis could be handled by a completely separate dev team.

    Also having Ibis tightly integrated with Lemmy would automatically limit the userbase to existing Lemmy users. The potential userbase for an independent project is much bigger.

    That said it would be good if Ibis can optionally integrate with Lemmy, but I'm not sure yet how that would work. The most straightforward option would be to treat Ibis articles as normal Lemmy posts, but maybe that doesn't make the most sense.