In general, it feels like Lemmy could use a better built-in method to discover remote communities, PeerTube as one example has their Sepia Search for remote discovery.
Ananace
Just another Swedish programming sysadmin person.
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You’ll take my API key from my cold dead hands!
Replies?! Nobody told me there’d be replies!
Well, I did quite literally just get this instance set up, so I guess just posting random comments is necessary.
Websockets really don’t integrate well with the entire rest of the HTTP stack, instead just repurposing the socket as a free-standing two-way communication pipe.
You can definitely use websockets for requests like regular HTTP, but you have to reimplement things like cookies/session handling, request resumption/retry, duplicated request detection, request timeouts, authentication, etc yourself if you want to use it that way.
I personally much prefer regular HTTP requests for queries/RPC, and HTTP SSE for notification streams, since those are well developed technologies in the web space - and work much better if there’s a middleware in between.