First release of LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board written in Rust

Re:First release of LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board writ... by LinuxBender on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @02:27PM (#33440652)

I've seen a few recent projects hard coding things like this. I am not a fan. Not because I want to use the words but rather I want to be in control of the instance I am running. UnrealIRCD for example has an optional module for word filtering that is quite powerful and can be left entirely blank, or use regex to replace words, block words or kick someone off. I just prefer having flexibility and multiple options. One of the goals of open source was to give people freedom of choice.

It's too bad as I really like the idea. I suspect and hope more things like this will pop up with recent events. Ultimately it is their project and their choice. I think I will stick with phpBB [1] as a forum, UnrealIRCD for the deep dark places [2] and uMurmur for real time text and voice.

[1] - https://www.phpbb.com/

[2] - https://www.unrealircd.org/

[3] - https://github.com/umurmur/umurmur

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Re:First release of LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board writ... by LinuxBender on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:50PM (#33615531)

I should add to this for completeness sake that if one finds UnrealIRCD to be too complicated, the simpler alternative is NGIRCD [1]. It takes all of maybe 4 or 5 minutes to get it set up and running with TLS from LetsEncrypt. It's dirt simple but sometimes quick and simple is useful in a pinch.

[1] - https://ngircd.barton.de/

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