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someone is working on a reddit api compatibility shim so reddit apps could connect to Lemmy without redesigning their apps (social.wake.st)
submitted 1 year ago by liaizon@social.wake.st to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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someone is working on a reddit api compatibility shim so reddit apps could connect to Lemmy without redesigning their apps

https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy

"Tafkars stands for "The API formerly known as...", is written in Rust and is pronounced like "tough cars". Tafkars is an API proxy that allows apps to talk to Lemmy through a familiar API from a kinder time. The hope is that this will make it easy for app developers to support Lemmy with only minimal code changes." @fediverse

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[–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kind of, in the sense that once populations booms, there could be many communities covering the same topic. Which has both upsides and downsides.

[–] thisn@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

I guess this will be sorted out by itself, as people will be joining the most active communities regarding a topic - at one point the least actice communities of a topic will "die" out.

[–] pcouy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Since I've joined lemmy, I've been thinking about some kind of "community merging" feature.

A "meta community" would be able to "follow" other communities across the fediverse and posts from followed communities would show up in the "meta community's" feed. Posts from followed communities would remain on their original instances, or they could be duplicated to the meta community's instance.

There are a lot of details to work out, but I think this would add a lot more usability to lemmy and the fediverse as a whole