Discuit just went open source, could federation be next? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by spaduf@slrpnk.net to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Announcement post here: https://discuit.substack.com/p/df5f002f-e27a-46a6-b30d-7641b266bd65

For those unfamiliar, Discuit is another Reddit alternative that's been floating around for a while. I was unable to find a MAU count, but I am honestly more interested in their software than their communities. Particularly curious what you all think of this stack. A consistent complaint around Lemmy is that a Rust backend makes contribution difficult, will a Go backend contribute to a lower overall barrier of entry?

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[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

There's already a PHP backend, kbin, though judging which is a better language for this sort of thing is outside of my wheelhouse.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

The best way to tell if php is the best language for something is simple. It isn't :-p

But at least it's not perl running out of cgibin.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin has more active development

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 11 months ago

Are they still calling communities "magazines"?

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

I think so, that's not that big of a deal, is it?

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 11 months ago

I find the terminology of Kbin confusing and it's one of the things putting me off it, personally. I don't think referring to a shitposted meme as an "article in a magazine" makes a whole lot of sense, and from an onboarding perspective it seems more intuitive to work with familiar terms like "community" and "post". Especially with the microblogging integration: if you want to make a thread somewhere you have to click "create article" because "create post" will have you make a microblog instead.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

From what I remember, the mbin team was indeed discussing it. I don't remember the details, but I think it was aligned with what you are saying.

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Oh, interesting, I hadn't heard of this. I hope this fork is amicable? Ernest has struck me as being a reasonable dev from what I've seen of his public interactions, I'd hate to hear that there's drama afoot.