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.

  • maegul (he/they)English
    2•11 months ago

    Sounds very cool. Hope all the best for you/SL!

    So general question … why not contribute back to or softly-fork Lemmy?

    While I’m sure you’ve got a lot to offer here and that SL may very well come to be awesome (especially, IMO, with the attractiveness of the tech stack to would-be contributors), I can’t help but wonder if it’d be better in this moment for the fediverse to focus more on building on what’s got momentum rather than splitting efforts. There are, of course, many counters to that argument … so I’m wondering what your thoughts are in general and behind this project?

    • @dresden@discuss.onlineEnglish
      6•11 months ago

      Main reason (or at least one of them) is the technology stack, choosing Java instead of Rust, to move fast with development, and (hopefully) to be more accessible for others to contribute.