Hexbear has a bit over 20 thousand users, similar to Lemmy. Both Lemmy and Hexbear would benefit from federation. So, what’s missing?
Hexbear has a bit over 20 thousand users, similar to Lemmy. Both Lemmy and Hexbear would benefit from federation. So, what’s missing?
Didn’t Hexbear run a heavily modified fork of Lemmy? Getting it to federate would be one of a hassle.
This, they forked Lemmy some time ago and made some major changes, so its not easy to merge. But they are slowly working on it, check links below.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/labels/hexbear
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2313
Gosh why even fork Lemmy?
LemmyNSFW has forked the lemmy UI to add an option to auto-expand images, IIRC