I’ve been looking for a free Reddit alternative and preferably one that was federated. I’m not really sure how federation works with this though. A lot of similar sites are just personal projects that people made as a hobby that lack a lot of important features or the interface was really ugly.
I haven’t seen how to moderate communities though but the Github page says this can be done, which I consider important since I want moderation to be done by communities and users rather then admins. If there’s a quarantine feature similar to Reddit that would be useful too so I don’t just have to ban communities.
If there is a leader then its still centralized, and its not clear what will happen if that leader disappears. Sure there might be some hacks to make it work, but I think that decentralized groups would need to use a different protocol from activitypub.
I am also interested in standardizing activitypub groups, but for now i’m busy refactoring our entire federation code, to make future changes easier (including compat with other projects).
Maybe leader/follower is the wrong concept. Synched groups might be better. To the user-observer they are similar to decentralized groups. But it’ll be a bit hacky, for sure :D
Good luck with the federation code. I am super curious about the features it will bring to Lemmy!. Thank you for all your efforts and dedication 💚