At this year’s FediForum one of the breakout sessions centred around the Theadiverse, the subset of ActivityPub-enabled applications built around a group-centric model of content representation.
The main outcome of the meeting involved the genesis of an informal working group for the threadiverse, in order to align our disparate implementations toward a common path.
If you’re developer of a threadverse app/platform and interested in being involved, read more at https://mastodon.social/@julian@community.nodebb.org/112124227775597261 or https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17908/threadiverse-working-group
i just hope whatever they do it is lemmy-compatible
It should be.
I’ve been looking at https://helge.codeberg.page/fep/final/fep-1b12/ which is the closest thing we have to a standard way to do communities. It was written by a Lemmy dev and so Lemmy does 95% of what is described there.
The only missing piece is the
replies, which Lemmy devs havenotepid interest in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2004. However Mastodon has this so we have an example to copy. I expect nailing that one down will be the bulk of the discussion to be had.The replies collection is only really really useful when adding a remote community for the first time and back-filling old content, so it’s not something that people on large instances will miss very much if Lemmy never implements it.
missing piece is the replies, which Lemmy devs have no interest
If you look in one of the duplicate issues, nutomic says “no one has implemented it yet. Would definitely accept a PR to add it though.”, so it’s not a matter of “no interest”, it is a matter of lacking manpower for it.
Yeah, I was going to say it was disingenuous to suggest theirs no interest in it from the developers.
Source: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4262#issuecomment-1855514307
@rimu@piefed.social You might wanna update your comment with the info brought by @rglullis@communick.news. Lemmy devs already receive a lot of hate around here and any little thing end up becoming another reason to attack them.
I should probably know this, but why “threadverse” and not “fediverse”? The name Threadverse sounds like a Meta trademark.
Threadiverse existed before Meta started their thing.
Thread i verse, threadverse??? I don’t know :)
Theadiverse refers specifically to Fediverse sites that are organized like forums.
Yea. Broadly it’s basically everything that’s not microblogging and has well organised conversations
That’s exactly my thought. I really don’t like “Threadiverse” for that reason.
So who is involved in this so far?
Developers from Discourse, NodeBB, Mbin, PieFed, Hubzilla and maybe some more that I forgot. Possibly Lemmy devs too, someone is contacting them directly about that.
If we can get Discourse and NodeBB sharing nicely with Lemmy+Mbin+PieFed it could more than double the size of the threadverse. It’s a big deal.
If we can get Discourse and NodeBB sharing nicely with Lemmy+Mbin+PieFed it could more than double the size of the threadverse. It’s a big deal.
Indeed!
If that all comes together, it’d be like “what kind of forum/reddit platform does the fediverse have” and the answer would just be “yes”.
How many people attended this ‘FediForum’? I ask because I’d like to see how representative it is of the community. The last thing the Fediverse needs is another cliché of nerds directing the strategy of a decentralized protocol.
A few hundreads I think? Though I don’t know how many are part of this working group. It’s open though so you or anyone interested can join.
Shouldnt admins be involved in this as well? Just an idea.
