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0 pointsyellowapple2y ago0 comments

Those three were the ones I was able to try out (and that seemed to work reasonably well). Do you have a sample Brutalinks instance running somewhere? If so, then happy to give it a whirl and add it to my list of options :)

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mariusor2y ago

There is a demo instance where I test the latest code[1], but my purpose as a developer is to make the project better not to admin/moderate a discussion platform. My hope was that communities come together and put up their own servers.

[1] https://brutalinks.tech

yellowappleOP2y ago

I dig it; you've made my self-imposed task of "figure out which of these I like best" that much harder lol

Noticing that it's more like HN than reddit, in the sense that there's no equivalent to a subreddit AFAICT. Fine for my purposes, but are there any implications around that when it comes to federating with e.g. Lemmy or Kbin (which very much do have subreddit-like subtopics)?

mariusor2y ago

> there's no equivalent to a subreddit AFAICT

The idea (maybe not very well communicated in the README and other docs[1]) is that each instance would correspond to a "subreddit" with its distinct community. The federated aspect however still allows users from other instances to subscribe/participate. In my personal opinion building services that group multiple interests is a step in the wrong direction creating redundancy to the concept of federation itself.

[1] https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/brutalinks/as-a-r...

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mariusor2y ago

[1] https://brutalinks.tech

yellowappleOP2y ago

I dig it; you've made my self-imposed task of "figure out which of these I like best" that much harder lol

mariusor2y ago

> there's no equivalent to a subreddit AFAICT

[1] https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/brutalinks/as-a-r...

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