cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/4522403
We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Sublinks, a groundbreaking Link Aggregation Social Network, joining the Fediverse. This innovative platform is designed to revolutionize how we share and discover online. Our dedicated team of volunteer contributors has worked tirelessly, utilizing technologies like Java, Go, TypeScript, and HTML to bring this vision to life. Sublinks promises a user-friendly interface and robust features that cater to diverse online communities. Stay tuned for our launch date, and get ready to experience a new era of social link sharing!
Sublinks will have a fully compatible API with Lemmy so all current Lemmy apps will also work with Sublinks. In fact, discuss.online will switch to Sublinks to fully replace Lemmy once we reach our Parity Milestone.
For more information, visit GitHub - Sublinks and sublinks.org.
Stay tuned for more regular updates as we progress.
Different technologies. Rust is a more niche language, which is sometimes used to explain why there aren’t that many contributors to Lemmy
Exactly, we already had 13 contributors working on it before it was announced.
Sure, but not one of those is a reason to use it.
There is probably no reason now, but hopefully in the near future Sublinks will reach feature parity with Lemmy, and could even surpass it. Technological stack can have a huge impact on the development speed of a project.
In other words, let’s wait and see
Thank you. That was very clear. I look forward to seeing the results of the developments.
That’s like saying “Watch my new TV show, it’s better than the other shows because our scripts are printed on an Epson printer!”
Not really because these are open source projects. The one that is easier to develop for will likely get more features which leads to more users.
That being said, Java was a questionable choice IMO.