The lack of keyboard interface on Lemmy is killing me, but really what I want is a good client in Emacs. However, it’s beyond my Elisp to design and start such a project, but I could probably help. Anyone on it?

  • blawsybogsy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    i’m the mastodon.el maintainer. i wonder if a decent idea for this would be to have an API library that could be used with gnus, elfeed, md4rd, or anything else? it seems like everyone will want to browse it in their preferred environment.

    some lemmy things are visible in mastodon.el, but it’s currently not great. not only because of how masto rendering is based on a microblog style view, but also because a lot of content doesn’t federate that well yet.

    i took a look at the lemmy API docs, but they don’t seem to provide an overview of the endpoints?

    • blawsybogsy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I have quite a few endpoints working now, each mostly just with the basic options implemented, and its easy to add endpoints with a handy macro i wrote. There are still quite a few quirks with lemmy itself that i’m struggling to work out, like how to search for my second account on another instance and actually have it appear in results. I might ask in a support room. The type-heavy rust and ts code is super foreign to me, it’s also very large. Maybe having the basics down I cd start on some necrco diy interface. [posted via lem.el]

    • asterisk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think this would be the best way to go.

      Myself, I’d love to be able to interact with Lemmy through Gnus, but it would be great to have a general emacs API for flexibility so you can choose the front-end.

      It looks as though the api for a client is defined in api_common.