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NLNet is funding ideas that contribute to an open Internet. Deadline for submitting proposals: 1 April. Submit your idea now.(nlnet.nl)
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[-]Neol1(+1|0)

They were funding Lemmy among other projects.

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[-]LarrySwinger1(+1|0)

That only looks bad because of the community that is using Lemmy and abusing the defederate feature. The software itself is sort of okay. It's bad because it looks ugly as shit.

Freedom-loving people can still flock ActivityPub and have their own servers that keep on federating with each other. It's just that people try it individually and get discouraged by all the blocks one by one. First was Exploding Heads, more recently Dig Deeper. If servers like those form their own network / federation it can be good.

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[-]Neol2(+2|0)

The problem with Lemmy is that devs are tankies - fans of authoritarian countries like China. So one feels weird when promoting Lemmy when the flagship instance is full of Chinese propaganda, and any attempt to debunk it is being deleted by mods (which are Lemmy devs).

That's why people started PieFed and Kbin/Mbin, they can federate with Lemmy instances if needed.

Anyway this is all not to say NLNet are bad or something, just a bit of context.

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[-]JasonCarswell2(+2|0)

So don't promote. Even downplay if necessary. Focus on the substance.
Lemmy is a tool, and doesn't have to be an ideology.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

Making CSS Themes with Sass and Bootstrap
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/theming.html#making-css-themes-with-sass-and-bootstrap

There was a pretty good Lemmy a while back, IIRC had a "Wolf" in the name, who gave up.

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[-]LarrySwinger1(+1|0)

Yeah okay, a good theme can be made. LemyBB looks good.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

*LemmyBB

https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmybb

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[-]LarrySwinger2(+2|0)

That's just a support community. The shithub is here. It has a file called .woodpecker.yml.

@RickSanchez.

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[-]RickSanchez1(+1|0)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB/blob/main/.woodpecker.yml Yes name checks out, they are fans of mine. :)

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

A Lemmy frontend based on phpBB 3.3.

I don't know what this means.

Is it a skin on a phpBB that is also federated? Great idea, I think.

Would be neat if you could switch between Facebook-Reddit-phpBB styles.

Here is a list of known lemmyBB instances:

All dead.

Too bad it hasn't been updated since Release 0.2.2, Apr 24, 2023.

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[-]LarrySwinger1(+1|0)

It's Lemmy down the hood but looks like phpBB they simply cloned the interface. So you can view the same content in multiple ways (regular Lemmy or LemyBB). However there were compatibility issues.

For another network that has multiple front-ends, check out plebbit. That one is p2p.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

It's been around a while.
What do you think of Plebbit?
Admin-less is not good, nor the NPC mascot, but the rest seems nice.

It would be kinda neat if you could host the site without associating/connecting to the world-wild network(s), thus be responsible for only what you host - AND - have it so in-browser a user could connect to other networked sites too, putting the aggregated filtration powers in the users' hands. As it should be, IMO.

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[-]Neol1(+1|0)

"Wolfsballs" I think.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

That's the one. What a name.

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[-]LarrySwinger1(+1|0)

Naming it that was a ballsy move.

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