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informapirata@mastodon.uno 11 months ago@maegul Admittedly, Lemmy has even more advanced and granular moderation capabilities, but Lemmy communities are a more structured tool. The Friendica forums, on the other hand, are a more minimal tool, more geared towards speed and above all allow crossposting
PS: I know it well, since I'm the admin of the Friendica poliverso.org instance but also of the Lemmy feddit.it instance 😅
maegul@calckey.social 11 months ago
@informapirata@mastodon.uno @atomicpoet@calckey.social @fediversenews@venera.social
Cool! And thanks!
I pitched the idea to lemmy devs of trying to replace with a.gup.pe with a modified lemmy instance. The lead dev (I've forgotten their name) seemed mildly interested but concluded, I think, on it being too hard / not worth it.
Do you have any thoughts?
I would guess that lemmy would be a better bet for replacing aguppe over friendica for two reasons:
1. it's overall less complex or has fewer features than friendica (could be wrong here)
2. It has a complete separation between the backend and frontend
informapirata@mastodon.uno 11 months ago
@maegul In my opinion it is important to distinguish the purpose of the two platforms:
1) Friendica is a social network with advanced features, including that of groups/forums, a feature that has been copied from the GUP groups (but Friendica also has private forums!)
2) Lemmy is NOT a social network (Lemmy users cannot "follow" other users), but it is a link aggregator with advanced social functions and the ability to create complex communities.
@atomicpoet @fediversenews
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informapirata@mastodon.uno 11 months ago
@maegul
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Thanks to its tightly focused design (no following, no crossposting), Lemmy can work with tens of thousands of users using very few hardware resources.
But if you want a tool like GUP, which automates crossposting, follow and share, only a social engine like Friendica's can offer the same functional coverage.
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@atomicpoet @fediversenews
maegul@calckey.social 11 months ago
@informapirata@mastodon.uno @atomicpoet@calckey.social @fediversenews@venera.social
Hmmm ... I'm unclear on your point about crossposting.
In my experience of interacting with lemmy on other platforms (mastodon chiefly), following and "at"-ing communities works just fine and just like GUP and friendica groups.
Also, from my experience, the structure of replies is federated well and pleasantly viewable through the lemmy interface should one want to, even when they're all coming from alternative platforms.
For the sake of providing a federated group-like facility to platforms without or uninterested in implementing it natively, what else would lemmy need?