Plugins for fediverse platforms.

Where is this up to? Is anyone thinking along these lines?

I’ve seen @db0 espouse such (eg https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/8581651) (sorry for the tag if annoying).

I’ve certainly thought of it myself … because it’s a pretty obvious idea for an ecosystem aiming for richness and sustainability.

Seems a perfect fit for reusable moderation tooling too, rather than each new platforms having that trouble.

This is essentially #bluesky 's idea it seems.

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  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    3 months ago

    Perhaps, but as far as I understand the Lemmy code base, that would be pretty difficult to pull off. With changes that intensive, you’ll probably end up with a Lemmy fork.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      Plugin a thing in so many software, from firefox, to wordpress, to godot engine, to unity engine to whatever else. I doubt it’s something extraordinary to pull off

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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        3 months ago

        Yes, and they all have very deliberate APIs to make that possible. I’m sure it can be done, but I don’t think it’ll be merged into Lemmy with how overworked the devs already are.

        But don’t feel too discouraged, I’m sure the community will welcome your contributions if you can design a good API and build a proof of concept!