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Beehaw, Lemmy, and A Vision of the Fediverse - Ruminations on the past and visions of the future (docs.beehaw.org)

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[-] Hirom@beehaw.org 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

An option is to add a plugin system or API that allows integrating mod/filter tools written in other languages.

Email systems already do something like this. Postfix and others support milters (mail filters) which run as a separate process and communicate via a socket.

[-] admin@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago

This would be something to bring up to @Penguincoder@beehaw.org since it falls outside my area of expertise.

[-] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago

So I've been working on a personal project link aggregator/forum that incorporates a lot of 'useful features'. It's not something that is prime time ready yet, but one of the key killer features I want to get operational before showcasing it, is exactly what you say. A method to allow plugins to be created an ran by admins and maybe mods. There is a lot that needs to go into the security of this though, and so it's not just a here run some code type of situation for users.

Mod tools are sorely needed on this platform, but I also don't want to be dictating how users of my software must use it. That is, what I may think are problems certainly may be, but how to solve it won't be the only way I say it should be. To that note, my plugin system (WIP) is a toss up between Lua scripts in a sandbox for mod programs/automodding, or the more basic expr language for Go.

So right now for Lemmy or other alternatives I've aware of, this capability does not exist. For my project in this space, I don't want just another Lemmy. I want a BETTER Beehaw.