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.
This site is really responsive and looks nice, has lots of good features etc… well done to the devs who created it… I know some Rust and could probably help out, I will have a look at the tickets and see if I can find time to explore the source code… thanks for the raising this up, I am sure others like me will find this and want to join the battle… being open source and community owned, I think it deserves contributions from users who are able to (and donations for those who still want to help but can’t contribute code).
EDIT: wow the code is very easy to follow! Highly recommend having a look if you know some Rust or want to practice Rust :)
How do I start? Recently laid off and willing to get my hands dirty. I know nothing about rust but I’m sure I can figure it out.
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