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.
@jgrim
I feel so old. I read that entire announcement three times, and still have no idea what Sublinks is.
Basically, it's a replacement for Lemmy. Ground-up rewrite of the source using a language with a much larger community.
I thought I was pretty familiar with the fediverse (joined mastodon in 2018) but I don’t understand what some of that means. What is a Link Aggregation Social Network and why is it capitalised?
Lemmy, Reddit, Sublinks, Kbin are all Link Aggregation social networks. They mostly share links to articles and the like. It's just the category they're in.
Lemmy and Reddit are LASNs. They collect links for people to comment on.
What’s an LISN ?
Edit: @feathercrown edited their post which originally said LISN.
Sorry typo-- meant LASN, Link Aggregation Social Network
Lisn al Gaib! It's the messiah of link interchange social media!
@jgrim
Oh, God. This must be the moment when I realize I'm over the hill for real. You're clearly assuming I know what Lemmy is, which implies that most people in this setting would, in fact, know what it is.
But I don't.
Jesus, I'm gonna need some Chivas after this.
it's funny, because I'm reading your comment from lemmy! to me, you're already "on Lemmy" so good job.
In old man terms: it's just a bunch of websites that talk to each other. we share links and memes, using some sites with a reddit aesthetic (lemmy), some with a twitter aesthetic (mastodon), but all (most of) the content gets posted to each other. me, I found my way here from the announcement being linked on Lemmy.
and you're not missing much from the announcement. they didn't really say anything substantial. it's all just corporate speak - bedazzled promises yet to be delivered. we'll see what they launch when they launch it, but i stopped caring by the time i read "innovate" and "revolution". at the end of the day it's gonna be pizzas and cats.
Unfortunately this is far from true. Mastodon and Lemmy have fundamental federation issues. But that's nuance that isn't important to people who are probably never going to use Lemmy (or SubLinks) directly.
And SubLinks is going to be more interesting to admins of Lemmy and app developers for Lemmy than users for some time, so I get the apathetic response.
yeah i think omitting defederation from the initial explanation makes it more digestible. It'd have been better to say Most instead of All though, yeah
Lemmy is the software that runs discuss.online, lemmy.world, etc.
@jgrim
Brother, you're makin' it worse...
@Professor_Stevens @jgrim
Twitter is to Mastodon as
Reddit is to Lemmy (and now Sublinks)
@awilbert @jgrim
Thanks! That, I get.
Maybe now this calls for Jose Cuervo instead of Chivas.
Lemmy is to Reddit as Mastodon is to Twitter.
There are so many buzzwords in that announcement it makes my head hurt.
In fact, went to sublinks.org and the about section is also full of buzzwords. It’s not clear at all.
@FelipeFelop
Well, I didn't mean to be particularly critical. I just didn't know what it was announcing. Now that you mention it, though, the wording is a bit corpo for the Fediverse.
Agreed, not critical just puzzled.