cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/4522403

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Sublinks, a groundbreaking Link Aggregation Social Network, joining the Fediverse. This innovative platform is designed to revolutionize how we share and discover online. Our dedicated team of volunteer contributors has worked tirelessly, utilizing technologies like Java, Go, TypeScript, and HTML to bring this vision to life. Sublinks promises a user-friendly interface and robust features that cater to diverse online communities. Stay tuned for our launch date, and get ready to experience a new era of social link sharing!

Sublinks will have a fully compatible API with Lemmy so all current Lemmy apps will also work with Sublinks. In fact, discuss.online will switch to Sublinks to fully replace Lemmy once we reach our Parity Milestone.

For more information, visit GitHub - Sublinks and sublinks.org.

Stay tuned for more regular updates as we progress.

  • @rglullisAEnglish
    18•5 months ago

    Ooh, just this week I started toying with a fork of takahe to see if it could be extended beyond microblogging. Some questions:

    1. Where have you found a proper documentation of Lemmy’s API? All I found on their website was the documentation of the Javascript SDK. If you have something like a Swagger/OpenAPI description of the API, it would help immensely.
    2. Why the mix of Java and Go?
    3. You mention a new API. Is there any chance that Sublinks could be developed as a more “strict” ActivityPub-compliance system? For example: would it be possible to architect the new features in a way that it only relies on the actor outbox/inbox?

    A bit more difficult question: the reason that I was looking at Takahe is because it’s the only AP server (that I know of) which supports multiple domains being served from the same instance. For someone providing “managed hosting” like me, it would save me a lot on resources to have one single server for multiple customers instead of having to spawn a new Mastodon server for every one that wants to have their own domain. Is there any “killer feature” on Sublinks planned that you’d say could warrant yet-another tool? Why not contribute to Lemmy instead? Or, if the devs are more experienced with Go, why extend/contribute to GoToSocial?

    • jgrim of SublinksEnglish
      13•5 months ago
      1. I referenced the Rust code to determine what was sent and received. We’re implementing better code logic; we’re not just copying their API. We want to be compatible to attract users and support all the hard work used to create Lemmy phone apps.
      2. Java is for the core Sublinks API/core. Golang is being used for the federation service that operates independently. Once it’s done, it will be platform agnostic if someone else wants to use the federation service for their fediverse project. They communicate through a message bus.
      3. Yes, we plan to do the new API correctly. We will support Lemmy’s API for as long as it is relevant, primarily for mobile apps.

      Multiple domains aren’t possible yet, but that doesn’t mean we cannot add it later.

      I’m unhappy with the Lemmy roadmap, development speed, and quality. I wanted to contribute but found it difficult to. I did the next best thing and created a somewhat drop-in replacement with a much larger community of developers who are willing to support it.

      You can see the complete Sublinks roadmap here: https://github.com/orgs/sublinks/projects/1. The first release of parity (v0.10) will use the existing Lemmy front-end. All releases after that will no longer support the Lemmy UI because that’s when the enhanced features start to roll in. We don’t want to support or fork the current Lemmy UI.