lemmy/README.md

Rust Reddit Fediverse (to be renamed later)

We have a twitter alternative (mastodon), a facebook alternative (friendica), so let's build a reddit alternative in the fediverse.

Matrix Chatroom

TODOs

• Use the activitypub crate.
• https://docs.rs/activitypub/0.1.4/activitypub/
• Activitypub vocab.
• Create a markdown doc of actions, matching up to things in that vocab.

Goals

• Come up with a name / codename.
• Must have communities.
• Must have threaded comments.
• Must be federated: liking and following communities across instances.

Questions

• How does voting work? Should we go back to the old way of showing up and downvote counts? Or just a score?
• Decide on tech to be used
  • Backend: Actix, Diesel.
  • Frontend: inferno, typescript and bootstrap for now.
• Should it allow bots?
• Should the comments / votes be static, or feel like a chat, like flowchat?.