Hey
I’m a developer that has a few accessibility clients at the moment.
Specifically, Spinal NZ are looking for a knowledge sharing/support platform that will fix some of Facebook Groups’s problems, including:
- Unable to suitably categorise Posts (sub-group/topic type/region)
- Difficulty searching/filtering
- Posts ‘drop off’ the bottom (due to inability to filter)
- Continual hacking risk
- Platform controlled by off-shore corporate interests
I have an intuition that federated platforms such as lemmy may align to the needs of accessibly communities, given its openness, self governance etc.
I would host an instance for the community so that they can self-moderate and connect up to other instances that might align with their needs.
I was wondering if anyone would recommend using lemmy for this purpose, if there are other federated systems that might carry out the same goal?
Hey Dave, I really appreciate your in-depth response.
Good to hear honest feelings about lemmy and some of its problems.
If I were to use lemmy, I would probably extend the code a bit to support the categorisation that we needed. Have you had any interaction with the backend? I’m happy with programming Rust and JS so think it might be possible to add the features we need.
I haven’t, and I haven’t tried, but there are lots of new contributors over the last few months that seem to be picking it up fine. I’m not familiar with Rust so haven’t looked at all.