Discuit just went open source, could federation be next? - eviltoast

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

https://discuit.net/

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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    1 year ago

    If it’s not ActivityPub compatible I don’t care anymore. Interoperability is a hard requirement at this point.

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      1 year ago

      Well that’s exactly why I’m bringing it up here. Lemmy didn’t start as a federated service.