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Customised Lemmy Instances? (programming.dev)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Are there instances that run modified versions of the base Lemmy software? For example, that use their own sorting algorithms, or provide users ways to block instances or specific users, etc?

Are there communities that talk about this kind of thing? Like a LemmyForInstanceOwners community? I don't really want to trawl through GitHub for this sort of discussion.

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Not all instance owners may want all those features implemented. Not the same but kind of like how Beehaw doesn't allow downvotes while other lemmy instances do.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    In the vast majority of cases, one can support variation in admin preferences by exposing a configuration parameter. Your downvote example is perfect because Beehaw doesn't run a customized lemmy codebase. There is a checkbox exposed to lemmy admins that enables/disabled downvotes.

    Running a custom-codebase is generally the highest-hassle method of achieving some custom-config goal. The absence of communities around this approach isn't an accident, the people who develop customizations generally try to work with the upstream unless the devs give them good reason not to.

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