cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/570507
After the (temporary) defederation announcement of earlier i checked the Lemmy repo to see if there was already a ticket on the federation limiting option like Mastodon’s that people mentioned Lemmy doesn’t yet have. Not only i didn’t find it, i also saw that there’s about 200+ open tickets of variable importance. Also saw that it’s maintained mostly by the two main devs, the difference in commits between them and even the next contributors is vast. This is normal and in other circumstances it’d grow organically, but considering the huge influx of users lately, which will likely take months to slow down, they just don’t have the same time to invest on this, and many things risk being neglected. I’m a sysadmin, haven’t coded anything big in at least a decade and a half beyond small helper scripts in Bash or Python, and haven’t ever touched Rust, so can’t help there, but maybe some of you Rust aficionados can give some time to help essentially all of Lemmy. The same can be said of Kbin of course, although that’s PHP, and there is exacerbated by it being just the single dev.
It’s on my radar and I’m sure it’s on a number of other people’s as well. It just takes a little onboarding time like all good projects.
Worth noting: the ui is in inferno js
I haven’t used Inferno but it looks similar to React. Is knowledge of React transferrable to Inferno or should I spent a bit of time learning Inferno specifically? I’ve got ~10 years React experience (started using it the same year it was open-sourced).
I haven’t messed with it much, but they do offer a high-level diff list about midway down the home page: https://www.infernojs.org/
It’s also on my “wishlist” for contribution. I’m learning Rust but didn’t know what project to bring the skill to practice.
Finally some good distractions for my Saturdays!