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.
It's neat how your breathless description makes it sound like you've discovered fire but then it reads like a "devs not implementing our pet features" fork.
You'll be - of course - committing changes back to a feature branch to enrich the project better than Kay Sievers did, right? This isn't some petulant land-grab like Bender going off to make his own casino?
It’s not a code fork it’s a completely new codebase in a different language.
It’s not just about implementing “pet features”. I’ve worked closely with admins of all major Lemmy instances to build the feature set for this and the roadmap plan.
Will it compete with https://join.piefed.social/ ? Or does it have some stand out features ?
You can see the full feature roadmap here: https://github.com/orgs/sublinks/projects/1/views/6
Thank you, to a non-developer eye that doesn’t look any different to Lemmy.
Please are you able to explain why sublinks is better and what the extra features are?
The new UI is still being developed. Sublinks currently supports the Lemmy UI.
Feature wise we plan to add a ton of improvements to moderation and CSPAM detection. We plan to improve ActivityPub to better integrate with other apps on the fediverse. We plan to create features for users to help discover other instance communities easier, use flair on posts, create favorites lists, and so on. You can click through each milestone and get an idea of what is to come. The first milestone is Parity with Lemmy to launch Sublinks. Then once the new front-end is done we’ll release that.
We’re working with creator of the Photon front-end and others to help make it as user friendly as possible.
There will also be a ton of under the hood improvements to help with federation.
The milestone themes are:
This is all before we reach the 1.0 milestone. We have around 13+ developers contributing to it already. I hope the announcement attracts more. We have a ton of support from other major Lemmy instances like Lemmy.World to get the right mix of features and testing.
Lemmy admins have a lot of frustrations with the non-existent roadmap of Lemmy and how slow development as been. We've almost reached parity within just a few months of work. The team is motivated and excited.
That's very impressive