Julian Lam
Hi @leroy, here's the state of forum software in the #fediverse
@nodebb currently is pursuing full federation (user actors, category actors, possibly topic actors) with an alpha by end of Q1.
#Discourse has a third party dev working on their implementation but it is currently category actors only (broadcasting content out to the fediverse)
#Flarum has received funding but I am not aware of any implementation yet. However @luceos would be the person to ask about this.
Leroy
What would a fediverse forum look like to you?
I know there are some out there, but I'm getting mixed signals about whether it's working or not. Anyone tried them?
phiofx
@devnull @luceos @leroy @nodebb @multiverseofbadness
The comparison between discourse type forums and reddit/lemmy/kbin is quite interesting in a #fediverse context. Conceptually they differ on the hierarchy level: single domain versus multi-domain.
In federation that distinction fades, a multi-domain experience can be emulated using a client and multiple servers.
On the other hand reddit/discord became big by making it really easy to start a sub. This is not yet the case for self-hosting
Julian Lam
#Lemmy and #kbin are technically forum softwares as well, even though their design lineage shares more in common with Reddit than traditional forum software. I assume you're already familiar with them 😅
Lastly, while @luceos and I have not spoken at length about integration, it is in our best interest to work together so that compatibility between our platforms is strong. All thanks to #ActivityPub!
Boris Mann
@devnull @leroy @nodebb @luceos @multiverseofbadness the Discourse team contracted it out but it is going to be an officially supported plugin AFAIK
It does a bunch of other things like adding in the ability to login via your Fedi account and link to your Discourse membership.
Replies via Fediverse get linked to the Discourse forum member when / if they link their accounts (so two way integration)
I’m excited for all the lovely ActivityPub Children ;)
Daniël Klabbers
@devnull @leroy @nodebb @multiverseofbadness we have not started the work on the fediverse implementation yet, but it will happen, it will happen in version 2 of Flarum and an implementation will probably be available this year.
Tim Chambers
@devnull @leroy @evan @cwebber @expert @luceos @nodebb @multiverseofbadness
Amen.
Julian Lam
@leroy you are not wrong. What @evan, @cwebber, et al. realized was that at their core, all social networking software follows nearly identical tenets. People follow other people, people like things, people respond to things with comments, etc.
At the end of the day, we're looking at different implementations to access the same #SocialWeb, different but amazing all in their own way.
Leroy
@devnull @expert @luceos @nodebb @multiverseofbadness So many links to look at! It’s interested that they are all taking a different approach to how I imagined it would go.
In my head any post on here should be able to be a forum post too. I need to figure out a way of explaining it better.
Thanks folks! I really hope 2024 is the return of the forum
Julian Lam
@expert @luceos @leroy @nodebb @multiverseofbadness you're right! My apologies 🙂
I must've thought it was more like Facebook
Expert Plus 🍀
@devnull @luceos @leroy @nodebb @multiverseofbadness You forgot to mention one more project - it's Friendica.
Rimu
@devnull @leroy @nodebb @luceos @multiverseofbadness There is also #PieFed. Demo at https://piefed.social and more info at https://join.piefed.social/
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