So I didn’t even know avatars were a thing on Reddit because I’ve used sync for so long. After migrating to Lemmy this is a thing I noticed they have and I actually added one. Will S4L include these? It’s not a huge deal I’m buying it anyways, just curious if it will be added to it.
Well, reddit had chat and we weren’t allowed to have it because they decided they didn’t want to create an AP for 3rd parties to use.
I wouldn’t presume Lemmy will lock features to its own app or site in an effort to monetize them or keep their users in their own apps.
I expect that ljdawson will bring in the features of the Lemmy site over to the app as he sees fit. And that we’ll have a pretty complete experience.
Lemmy doesn’t have “their own app” nor does it have “its own site”. It’s all open source. There is no one company behind it. The one issue that might arise is that the open source project is being led by a bunch of developers who could in theory go rogue, but people would just create a fork (kinda like a copy) of the source code and create their own lemmy instances. On top of that, Lemmy instance admins would likely not install the updates from the main developers.
Don’t worry, we’re safe here.
Forever and ever :3
If there are missing features from the Lemmy API, that can be requested or even someone can implement them themselves. Pending approval from the project maintainers, they’ll be made a part of the main branch of Lemmy and thus all updated Lemmy instances will have access to these new API features.