Hoot VS Lobsters

Once upon a time, there was even a custom software frontend being developed for it called Hoot: https://github.com/ProjectHoot/Hoot

Click here for more infomation about Project Hoot, or check out the FAQ, of find the project on Github.

Lemmy and Hoot.

Project Hoot: https://github.com/ProjectHoot/Hoot (?)

/r/TheMotte was looking for a self-hosted Reddit alternative and Lemmy was in the cards, but it was decided against on the basis of the project's explicit ideological commitments. In the end they settled on Lotide + Hoot.

However, /r/GoldandBlack has been making their own plans - see here - and their approach, which I admit I'm kinda liking, is to start with a federated backbone (lotide, in their case) and build a new interface on top of it (which they're calling Hoot). This has the big advantage that a lot of communities could jump ship at once and form a sort of metacommunity, each running their own server but cross-accessible via federation, without any individual community being beholden to anyone else's rules.

RSS is a good idea, I'd suggest it as a feature request, https://github.com/ProjectHoot/Hoot/issues

var req2 = http.GetStringAsync("https://lobste.rs");

"I actually wish we had a hacker community like this without the business/startup side at all"

Sounds like you want https://lobste.rs

Well, there's https://lobste.rs/, or we could all go back to slashdot I guess

Requesting https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters as I'm going through that codebase and would be able to provide feedback. cheers

ps. just gonna second everyone else who's saying being able to edit out incorrect data is very important, otherwise people are gonna be weary of reading repos they aren't already familiar with.

> Hacker News, but also lobster.rs

First time I hear about it. I think you meant https://lobste.rs