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Discuit just went open source, could federation be next? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Announcement post here: https://discuit.substack.com/p/df5f002f-e27a-46a6-b30d-7641b266bd65

https://discuit.net/

For those unfamiliar, Discuit is another Reddit alternative that's been floating around for a while. I was unable to find a MAU count, but I am honestly more interested in their software than their communities. Particularly curious what you all think of this stack. A consistent complaint around Lemmy is that a Rust backend makes contribution difficult, will a Go backend contribute to a lower overall barrier of entry?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin has more active development

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh, interesting, I hadn't heard of this. I hope this fork is amicable? Ernest has struck me as being a reasonable dev from what I've seen of his public interactions, I'd hate to hear that there's drama afoot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Delivery is faster, they just released a new version this week. PR review is faster, which helps a lot.

Fedia.io is running it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are they still calling communities "magazines"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think so, that's not that big of a deal, is it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I find the terminology of Kbin confusing and it's one of the things putting me off it, personally. I don't think referring to a shitposted meme as an "article in a magazine" makes a whole lot of sense, and from an onboarding perspective it seems more intuitive to work with familiar terms like "community" and "post". Especially with the microblogging integration: if you want to make a thread somewhere you have to click "create article" because "create post" will have you make a microblog instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

From what I remember, the mbin team was indeed discussing it. I don't remember the details, but I think it was aligned with what you are saying.