Perhaps it’s your client or the server acting funny. Here are direct links to the open rooms:

• https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks-development-api:discuss.online
• https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks-off-topic:discuss.online
• https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks-development:discuss.online
• https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks-development-federation:discuss.online
• https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks-announcements:discuss.online
• https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks-support:discuss.online
• https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks-git:discuss.online

It’s not dead, perhaps you joined at a slow time. We were just chatting a bunch in there about cursor pagination. There are several rooms if you didn’t notice. General, Frontend, API, & Federation. Along with Announcements and Support.

I’m the founder of Sublinks. I’m happy to answer questions. You can find me on Mastodon @sublinks@utter.online. You’re right about the dev blog. We have a weekly Sublinks team meeting, the results of that could go into a weekly dev update. I’ve just been more focused on coding than community stuff. I’ll do better.

I’m finding it difficult to find or create a good tool for Lemmy. I started on a service called socialcare.cloud to work as a 3rd party SaaS application to monitor instances and mirror the content for moderation constantly. In the end, it doesn’t make sense to do because it’s just centralizing the fediverse. The APIs of Lemmy just aren’t robust enough to support external services right now.

I’m interested in knowing what people are finding.

I’ve been planning on building a replacement front-end that allows additional moderation tools, but it’ll be a while before it’s ready. There are complications with data storage, etc.

I see what you’re saying. It would be a mix of both due to some limits of the current Lemmy API. Rate limits based on IP & inconsistent instance limits are the biggest factors. They also merge a lot of unrelated stuff into limit buckets. Without a robust API with client keys, I’m kind of limited.

I think a site / API and maybe an iOS / Android app. If I open up the API, I might lean more on the community to build the apps. Doing this would take a load off instances but put more load on me as an entry point to the Lemmy fediverse. I still have to figure out how it’ll work and run. The changes in designs and themes is a problem and will only get worse. I think there are too many variables to get a chrome/firefox extension to work.

I’m currently using it on socialcare.cloud, which is a Laravel app.

Exactly, I mostly pretend they’re post-its. I need to keep my thoughts and plans in order. If I’m managing a team they can expand on it if they want. Most people want sprints now though with pointing and all that noise.

Me too. I’m not writing detailed specs for some faceless teams. This is for me to track. I want to keep it organized but simple.

Yes, I’ve just been into this idea for a while. I thought about building something like Lemmy about 10 years ago, but everyone said I was crazy to think people would do it. It’s here now, and I want it to grow and be trusted. The only way to do that is to build trusted instances. I took it upon myself to make that happen or at least contribute to it happening.

I prefer the smaller communities. It feels less like shouting into a void.

Yes, when I started talking to other admins that’s when I realized how over prepared I was compared to them.

That’s what made me decide to do the downgrade. I might do it again at some point.

It was already in a spiral. I think some people are mores sensitive to the gravity of it.

I had many discussions with Mods when working out the plan for SocialCare.cloud. I never knew what was involved. I even suggested adding a tip jar to each community to help compensate the mods. I was told that was a terrible idea. After further discussion, it seems to be true. Perhaps a more general shared fund would be better.

I see. My server instance is at 5% CPU and 15% memory usage. However, my managed DB instance is constantly near 80%. I’m thinking about moving the database over to the same server and managing my own backups. It’s seems much more DB heavy now.

Yeah, and Mastodon is more ready for growth than Lemmy is. I’d say Mastodon is better than Twitter. Lemmy doesn’t quite have the same polish, yet.

Yeah, I’ve had friends say they’ve noticed a huge degradation since the Rexxit. But they say, “I’m addicted.”

A few Subreddits were planning to come over at the end of the month that didn’t work out. Their members revolted and threatened to replace the mods. So they stayed over there. It would have been over 200k people if they all came over, even if not all members came. I thought I was under planning at the time.

I was reaching out to Reddit mods, trying to convenience them to join my instance. It almost worked, haha.

But in the end, I had to scale down while still maintaining something snappy. The DB is already over 15G, and I want to use a managed db. It’s too large to put on smaller instances.

I was expecting over 200k people to going overnight from Reddit. There were a few communities actively working to come over. In the end the followers revolted against a Rexxit. They didn’t come.

What does yours look like now?