I agree that it would make sense to integrate a wiki into Lemmy. However that’s much more complicated than a standalone project, because it needs to integrate well with all the existing features. Plus it means more work for all the Lemmy developers, while Ibis could be handled by a completely separate dev team.
Also having Ibis tightly integrated with Lemmy would automatically limit the userbase to existing Lemmy users. The potential userbase for an independent project is much bigger.
That said it would be good if Ibis can optionally integrate with Lemmy, but I’m not sure yet how that would work. The most straightforward option would be to treat Ibis articles as normal Lemmy posts, but maybe that doesn’t make the most sense.
Dansup is well known for making grand announcements and delivering on them very late or never. I think it was more than two years ago that he announced federated groups for Pixelfed and still nothing. So I wouldn’t get my hopes up yet.
I’m not a web designer, the purpose of the announcement was exactly to get such contributions. It’s not my problem if hn users fail to understand the novelty of this project. They are clearly not half as smart as they think of themselves
I don’t see how that would work with federation, as there would be multiple separate groups of community mods (and also admins) who could remove comments.
Actually its too complicated to change the title in Ibis due to federation. Plus I would have to rewrite the whole intro. But I will keep it in mind for the future.
Yes articles are duplicated in the same way posts are duplicated on Mastodon or Lemmy, so they wont go away. Moderation doesnt exist so far. There is a search field in the sidebar.
The link goes directly to Ibis where I posted the announcement.