Are there communities, free software/open source or otherwise, using Lemmy as their forum software?
Nowadays, many use Discourse, some are on Zulip, and I just don’t care about the Discord ones. Would Lenmy not fit the same purposes? It is federated and easier to participate in, like mailing lists - no need to sign up per forum. Matrix is too, but it doesn’t seem to be made for long-form writing.
I believe Discourse was designed based on experience with community dynamics, and Zulip is well-designed too. Would something with federated participation like Lemmy not work as well?
I’m open to the idea of using Lemmy for discussions, and feature requests, for my open-source software projects. My projects are on a self-hosted Forgejo instance and Forgejo currently lacks a discussion feature. But, unfortunately, none of my projects are popular enough to deserve a discussion board. 😭
You can setup a Lemmy community and link it in all your project repos. Sooner or later people will show up.
Yeah, you’re right. I should start now instead of waiting for popularity to kick in (if ever). I’ve begun to create one community, per project, on my Lemmy instance.
The sad thing about forgejo servers is that our stuff might be popular if the projects were not so isolated. I want federation so bad but I feel like I was waiting for years now
I think the Forgejo project should be given some leniency when it comes to the development of its federation. After all, no other software forge has achieved such a feat as of this date, not even the likes of Gitlab.
The good news is that we don’t have to wait for Forgejo federation. We already have software, such as Lemmy, that can supplement as a federated discussion and issue board. To maintain an audit trail, just cross-reference between Forgejo issues and Lemmy posts as needed.
Discourse already has an activitypub plugin
Lemmy is a far better platform for discussions than Discourse in my opinion. The tree like sub-reply threads in each post (the Reddit concept) is preferable over a single thread of replies. You don’t need to cross quote and for readers no need to read the quote to see who and to what the reply is about. I don’t like Discourse discussion platforms at all.
However, Discourse has a few features that fits well for a discussion platform. I like the tags and Trust system of it.
i miss actual forum software :(
i think i still have a vbulletin v3(?) zip from when i had a license back in the day
Vbulletin where fun to configure and tweak ! Some private trackers have still those old vbulletin vibes!
Sure. But network effect is a bitch.
Isn’t that where it’d shine? An organization could host their own Lemmy and anyone who has an account on any other instance can interact
Sure. But from the point of view of most people everyone (especially gamers) has a Discord account and nobody has a Lemmy account. Even a Mastodon account would suffice. But compared to Discord nobody uses these.
Oh, yeah, that part.
This was a lemmy frontend: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB
