The average peasant in medieval Europe would certainly never see an African person in his lifetime.
Some people get faith and hope from Christianity. Or Islam, or Buddhistm or others. Nothing wrong with that.
In case of Lemmy most initial users came from subreddits that were banned, specifically communist ones. But that is unlikely to work for Ibis, as people banned from Wikipedia have many alternatives such as setting up Mediawiki. Other people who joined Lemmy early were excited about the technology, and open source in general (which is why those topics are still so popular). So open source and fediverse enthusiasts are more likely to join.
Besides Ibis is still in a very early stage, so far there are not even any mod tools or account settings. So for the moment its more important to get programmers, designers, testers and other contributors to develop the project. Once some of these major features are implemented, it will make more sense for general users to join. But I dont have a specific plan for growth, hopefully growth will simply happen organically over time like it did with Lemmy.
Do you think all of lemmy.ml is a single person? In this case its just the decision of a single moderator, nothing to do with admins.
Ibis version 0.1.4
About
Ibis is a federated online encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. Users can read, create and edit articles seamlessly across instances. It uses the Activitypub protocol to connect users across different websites, similar to Mastodon or Lemmy.
You can browse the flagship instance ibis.wiki, or register an account on open.ibis.wiki to start editing.
Changes
- Fix math parsing by @Silver-Sorbet
- Add support for markdown footnotes
- Add anchors to markdown headings
- Remove autolink markdown rule
- Add spoiler tags
Support
Creating a project like this from scratch requires a lot of work. So contributions are more than welcome, in order to add all the necessary features.
https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis
You can also support the project by donating.
What a shame, I spent a lot of time working on syncthing-android (probably around four years). But in the end I stopped for the same reason, it's very demotivating to be so reliant on a corporation like Google which is entirely indifferent or even hostile to open source apps. Every year with the new Android version there are new required features or mandatory changes to implement, and if you don't comply they don't allow publishing new app versions. That's not a big deal for commercial apps with fulltime developers, but it's a lot of work for small apps maintained by volunteers. And it's never anything that would benefit syncthing-android or it's users, just busywork that takes away from bug fixes and feature development.
The good thing about open source is that someone else can always pickup and continue the work. Google's shenanigans were what drove me to server administration and backend development, which finally led me to work on Lemmy. The experience with syncthing-android definitely taught me a lot about how to run a popular open source project.
Lemmy Development Update 2024-10-18
Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.
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Nutomic
Support development
@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.
If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.
- Liberapay (preferred option)
- Open Collective
- Patreon
- Cryptocurrency
Right I will also have to make a template with these common parts of the release announcement. Instance blocking is not implemented yet, but it uses the same federation library as Lemmy so that will be easy to add when its needed.
Ibis version 0.1.2
This release contains numerous bug fixes and minor improvements. Thanks to Kalcifer for reporting many of these.
- LaTeX formatting is now supported to handle mathematics (thanks Silver-Sorbet)
- The editor now has a live preview of rendered markdown
- Better layout for edit history
- Fixed user links in edit history
- Edits are now correctly sorted by date
- Removed maximum width for page
- Render markdown titles smaller than page title
- Disable markdown plugins for url shortening and smartquotes
- Resize article edit input based on length
Ibis version 0.1.2
This release contains numerous bug fixes and minor improvements. Thanks to Kalcifer for reporting many of these.
- LaTeX formatting is now supported to handle mathematics (thanks Silver-Sorbet)
- The editor now has a live preview of rendered markdown
- Better layout for edit history
- Fixed user links in edit history
- Edits are now correctly sorted by date
- Removed maximum width for page
- Render markdown titles smaller than page title
- Disable markdown plugins for url shortening and smartquotes
- Resize article edit input based on length
Ibis version 0.1.2
This release contains numerous bug fixes and minor improvements. Thanks to Kalcifer for reporting many of these.
- LaTeX formatting is now supported to handle mathematics (thanks Silver-Sorbet)
- The editor now has a live preview of rendered markdown
- Better layout for edit history
- Fixed user links in edit history
- Edits are now correctly sorted by date
- Removed maximum width for page
- Render markdown titles smaller than page title
- Disable markdown plugins for url shortening and smartquotes
- Resize article edit input based on length
Pictrs is only made for images (and videos), as the name implies. Supporting other types of files in pictrs wouldnt make much sense. This means that other file types would have to be stored by a different backend tool, or directly in Lemmy. As we are only two fulltime developers on Lemmy, we dont have the time or resources to work on this, and need to focus on the most popular features.
There is no way for admins or mods to modify user comments or impersonate users, except directly through the db which is unavoidable.
We had a very long discussion recently how vote privacy should be handled, and the current behaviour seems to be the best compromise.
Multi-communities is one of those popular features we are going to implement soon.
I wish this obsession with superhero movies would finally end. It's been going on for what, more than ten years now? And it's always the same, some bad guy wants to destroy the world (or the universe or the multiverse), then an excessive amount of cgi action happens and finally the good guys win.
Why not make some original movies with new stories, instead of rehashing the same old slop over and over again?
And yet the article manages to get people upset, makes the talk about it and get shared. Basically free marketing for SH2. It's a win-win for eurogamer and for the game publisher. All it takes is a single troll on Wikipedia and some PR work.
No domestic flight, just Europe -> Texas -> Mexico.
In principle it's finished, but last time we put it on lemmy.ml for testing there were performance problems and we had to revert. So far it's not clear what caused those problems, so we need to try again somehow.
Or you guys like to be shouted at. There is no other country that does this.
Not like that, they didn't let me board my flight from Europe to Texas. Even though I had a connecting flight to Mexico few hours later. Why can't they have a visa free transit zone like every other country in the world?
I only stopped there for transit on a flight to Mexico. Just before boarding my flight I was told that I need a visa for the US, which is extremely weird because normally airports have transit zones where you don't need any visa. But apparently the US is special, so you actually have to enter the country before going right back into the airport. This nonsense made me miss my flight.
Also I remember in the airport there was a security guard doing nothing but shouting nonstop that it's not allowed to carry water. Why not simply put up a sign?
Want to contribute to Lemmy? Heres a list of good issues to get started
We also have documentation to setup the dev environment: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/02-local-development.html
If you have questions, feel free to ask here, in the relevant issue or in matrix.
Which code style to initialize structs?
Which of these code styles do you find preferable?
First option using mut with constructor in the beginning:
rust let mut post_form = PostInsertForm::new( data.name.trim().to_string(), local_user_view.person.id, data.community_id, ); post_form.url = url.map(Into::into); post_form.body = body; post_form.alt_text = data.alt_text.clone(); post_form.nsfw = data.nsfw; post_form.language_id = language_id;
Second option without mut and constructor at the end:
rust let post_form = PostInsertForm { url: url.map(Into::into), body, alt_text: data.alt_text.clone(), nsfw: data.nsfw, language_id, ..PostInsertForm::new( data.name.trim().to_string(), local_user_view.person.id, data.community_id, ) };
You can see the full PR here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5037/files
The Crypto-Keepers - Interview with Telegram founder Pavel Durov
If apps like Signal really posed a threat to the NSA’s surveillance power, why would the U.S. government continue to fund them?
Looking for Moderators
/c/opensource is currently unmoderated because all the existing mod accounts are inactive.
Thats why we are looking for new moderators. To apply as mod, reply below indicating what would make you a good moderator for this community, and mention any previous mod experience you have. You should be registered on lemmy.ml and have previous posting history.
Looking for Moderators
This community is currently unmoderated because the only moderator has deleted his account. For this reason the community is currently locked until new mods are added.
To apply as /c/politicalhumer mod, reply below indicating what would make you a good moderator for this community, and mention any previous mod experience you have. You should be registered on lemmy.ml and have previous posting history.
Documentation for writing Lemmy Plugins
Documentation for Lemmy. Contribute to LemmyNet/lemmy-docs development by creating an account on GitHub.
If you write a plugin, let me know how it goes!
Proof of concept for Lemmy plugin system
This PR adds a basic plugin hook using Extism (webassembly), including a simple example plugin written in Go. Plugins can also be written in many other languages like JS, Rust, .NET or C. For now t...
Ibis Version 0.1.1
What's Changed fix mobile css layout by @mstcl in #22 Add follow instance button in article nav (fixes #31) Dont allow / in article title (fixes #25) Include domain when generating diff link (fixe...
- fix mobile css layout by @mstcl
- Add follow instance button in article nav (fixes #31)
- Dont allow
/in article title (fixes #25) - Include domain when generating diff link (fixes #23)
- Minor changes to create/edit article page (fixes #24)
RFC for Private Communities in Lemmy
Requests for comment for changes to Lemmy. Contribute to LemmyNet/rfcs development by creating an account on GitHub.
Lemmy Development Update 2024-02-09
Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.
The last two weeks were rather quiet, with only some minor changes merged:
@Elara6331 made improvements to the RSS feeds, adding thumbnails and filtering invalid characters. She also made a change to account creation, so that new accounts automatically have the correct interface language.
@iatenine increased the font sizes in lemmy-ui.
@Kradyz improved the message of the add mod dialog.
@dessalines has been adding more mod tools to jerboa: adding ban actions and viewing votes.
@Sleepless has been working on lemmy-ui-leptos, as well as creating a rust api library for lemmy called lemmy-client-rs.
Support development
@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.
If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.
- Liberapay (preferred option)
- Open Collective
- Patreon
- Cryptocurrency (scroll to bottom of page)