cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/4522403
We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Sublinks, a groundbreaking Link Aggregation Social Network, joining the Fediverse. This innovative platform is designed to revolutionize how we share and discover online. Our dedicated team of volunteer contributors has worked tirelessly, utilizing technologies like Java, Go, TypeScript, and HTML to bring this vision to life. Sublinks promises a user-friendly interface and robust features that cater to diverse online communities. Stay tuned for our launch date, and get ready to experience a new era of social link sharing!
Sublinks will have a fully compatible API with Lemmy so all current Lemmy apps will also work with Sublinks. In fact, discuss.online will switch to Sublinks to fully replace Lemmy once we reach our Parity Milestone.
For more information, visit GitHub - Sublinks and sublinks.org.
Stay tuned for more regular updates as we progress.
One of the most inportant features that lemmy lacks is the embedding of peertube/invidious/youtube videos . If you manage to incorporate this then what you’d have would be basically a huge improvement for the Fediverse. Imagine someone sharing a song/video he found on YouTube and instead of dealing with redirect and opening an entire other app you just click play. Heck, the user could add an “audio only” tag to their post to just show a music player widget.
I was reading through Thunder’s issues and here one of the devs of lemmy says that youtube/peertube embed links are already supported in the backend with post.embed_video_url.
I’m not sure how easy would be to implement that embed in the different apps/lemmyUI however!
Hard to get an idea of the project from the intro, IMO!
It’s basically a fork of Lemmy. But rather than forking, we’re rewriting the entire tech stack to something easier to support and enhance. You can see the full roadmap here: https://github.com/orgs/sublinks/projects/1
That’d be great to add to the about. As it is right now it’s just fluff. Had no idea what this project is because the demo is just a lemmy instance. How would a user know anything is different?
Please give me one example of how sublinks is better than lemmy currently for use.
(I don’t understand why new software instead of improving lemmy.)
It’s always good to have alternatives. Healthy competition can make them grow better too.
One way would be by implementing features the Lemmy devs have no interest in such as better interoperability with other fediverse platforms. If any added feature turns out to be well received and in demand, it would pressure the others to implement similar.
Java, Go, TypeScript, and HTML
Different technologies. Rust is a more niche language, which is sometimes used to explain why there aren’t that many contributors to Lemmy
There is probably no reason now, but hopefully in the near future Sublinks will reach feature parity with Lemmy, and could even surpass it. Technological stack can have a huge impact on the development speed of a project.
In other words, let’s wait and see
That’s like saying “Watch my new TV show, it’s better than the other shows because our scripts are printed on an Epson printer!”
Not really because these are open source projects. The one that is easier to develop for will likely get more features which leads to more users.
That being said, Java was a questionable choice IMO.
Sometimes improving an existing software is not always possible. One example is when the lead devs do not accept the proposed features. Another scenario is when a dev team is too onerous to work with. I am not involved in this project so I do not know the background here myself so I can only make a few educated guesses.
So if I’m understanding correctly, if I created a Sublinks account, theoretically I would see all the same content, and I could use the same app, but it would be more optimized and have some additional features (on the web UI or if the app implemented those features)?
That’s interesting.
The demo indeed looks very much like Lemmy, I guess the changes are mostly in the back-end side: https://demo.sublinks.org/
The front-end is coming later. It’s fully compatible with Lemmy’s API so the demo site currently uses the Lemmy front-end.
Makes sense, let us know about the progress on your project, seems promising!
Does that mean your frontend will also be compatible with a Lemmy backend?
We are creating a Sublinks specific API that is much more optimized than the Lemmy one. Our front-end will be using that. Also, we’ll have tons more features that the Lemmy core doesn’t support.
The front-end is coming later. It’s fully compatible with Lemmy’s API so the demo site currently uses the Lemmy front-end.
Going so far as to invite you to join-lemmy.org and linking to Lemmy’s github.
On the other hand, they’ve got their back end up to version 0.19.0 already; it took Lemmy years and years to get to that point.
Edit: I’m just messing with you guys; I wish you well. 🙂
