For those who don’t know, Reddit announced they would start asking outrageous prices for API access, which will essentially kill off all third party apps.
We’ve received quite a few new account requests after this announcement, and expect to receive more, so this post is aimed at you, prospective lemmygrad member!
We’ll go through each account application with due diligence, but we would like you to know before you request an account that Lemmygrad is a Marxist instance, principally Marxist-Leninist. We like Stalin and we uphold the DPRK’s sovereignty and legitimacy over the whole of Korea. We love China’s Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.
You can always request an account but you will likely be disappointed in your browsing experience if we approve you and you find yourself surrounded by MLs if you are not one.
Up to a few seconds ago, our tagline said “leftist communities” instead of “marxist communities” on join-lemmy, and I’m guessing that’s why many non-marxist socialists wanted to join us.
You might prefer lemmy.ml or hexbear.net, although hexbear is not federated with anyone yet.
Do we have any word on the progress/ continued intent for hexbear to federate?
Main (current) hexbear dev here. We are all wrapped up getting hexbear back on top of upstream lemmy. All our features are merged in, and we are now preparing for our migration. We don’t have concrete plans yet for federation itself that I’m aware of, and will likely be up to the community.
Haven’t y’all federated now? How do I subscribe to hexbear communities on my home instance (here)?
Last I heard they were looking at volunteers to help with the backend, it’s a whole thing and it’s going to require manpower. Otherwise I don’t know where they’re at, haven’t heard anything in a month or two.
Isn’t one of the biggest issues the emotes?
Emotes would have to go unless they can contribute the code necessary to support custom emotes to Lemmy. But hexbear has diverged so much from the Lemmy codebase that it’s not as simple as copying and pasting the code, they’re gonna have to rewrite the website from the ground up essentially. As well as contribute to Lemmy to get what they need out of it.
Emotes (as well as taglines) are on the development branch. This is what I see in the admin settings running the latest changes from Lemmy’s main branch locally:
I have no idea when the next stable release with all of the latest changes will be, but if I had to guess I’d think it wouldn’t be long after the websocket API is ripped out.
I hope we get BIG EMOJIS.
Before hexbear I always hated emojis because they all look like corporate ad art eww.
But BIG COMMUNIST EMOJIS are cool and I can see what they are depicting because they are BIG.
yes didn’t mean to imply it was that simple, I just remember them saying emotes were going to be one of the biggest problems or something