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  • There’s a lot of drama in that Issue, and then, at the very end:

    Thanks for sharing your concerns here. We have been progressing use of our SDK in more use cases for our clients. However, our goal is to make sure that the SDK is used in a way that maintains GPL compatibility.

    the SDK and the client are two separate programs
    code for each program is in separate repositories
    the fact that the two programs communicate using standard protocols does not mean they are one program for purposes of GPLv3

    Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug.


  • To my mind, the ideal would be that if you, as the person who wants to share some ‘open-source’ news, chose one community that you think is ‘best’ (based on what instance it’s on, if the mods are real people and are active, participation levels, whatever you think really). And we, as subscribers, would do the same. This way, the ‘good’ communities would thrive, and the ‘bad’ ones would wither away. What happens at the minute, is that there’s 8 communities for open source, and there’ll always will be, because they aren’t in competition with one another.

    (this is mostly just a general point about cross-posting behaviour, it’s not meant as a dig at you personally).


















  • Mastodon also has a different outbox format (one that’s paginated), so that’s the other reason their posts don’t show from Lemmy. Solving the problem of following users with fake communities has also been proposed (by me, and also here), but it’s generally a bad idea - a hack that will come back to bite you. If Lemmy were changed to integrate Mastodon more, it’d ideally be a big project - one that would fully embrace the idiosyncrasies of Mastodon (like muting replies and denying Follow requests) because ignoring them would lead to trouble later on.