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In other news, Discourse, the free forum platform, is now joining the Fediverse. Yep, Discourse forums will become compatible with Mastodon! https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794/116
  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    Makes sense, it was already open source, just attaching to the activitypub protocol is a straightforward move.

    It’s everywhere too. Blogs, webcomics, special interest forums, and they will all potentially become new fediverse instances virtually by default. It’s pointing to a future where people join the fediverse without knowing what it is or seeking it out. They just want to join a forum to discuss their interests.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        It could be an issue if the admin isn’t prepared for it. One of the good things about it is that the posts get cached wherever they’re accessed so it may actually reduce server load for a popular post.

        I guess if it is an issue the admins could always disable activitypub.

  • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    Anyone have an example of how browsing/commenting works? Can we follow a forum’s section using lemmy or mastodon accounts? How do we comment on a discourse thread with mastodon or lemmy?

    BlenderArtists forum uses discourse so that would be cool to browse/use with lemmy

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    This is really cool, I wonder if it can have integration with the “threadiverse” such as with lemmy or kbin?

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Eventually I imagine there will be adaptors for all the various types of post throughout the fediverse. I wonder if the differences will become largely superficial, with every activitypub system able to read all the others. It’s just a matter of maturing the ecosystem.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Hopefully but that is a tough nut to crack especially if things weren’t designed to be that way originally.

  • uthredii@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Discourse and Lemmy are both based around topics/communities so hopefully there will be better federation here. E.g. being able to follow a discourse topic from lemmy would be really cool.

    Hopefully they have done this in a way where Lemmy can federate with then easily.

  • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    That’s great! It’s really annoying for me how I have to make an account on every single discourse forum, and every time I get the welcome mail and the first comment badge, and so on. Also, the emails from all of the forums are annoying. This seems to fix all of that.

  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    eVeRYOnE defederate immediately! It will flood our community with new users and be awful!

    • Nemeski@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Forum users tend to prefer long-lasting discussions, which is not the case on Lemmy/Reddit, where threads are forgotten after a few days.

      • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I will say that I find good advice on tech subreddits now and then, as good as or better than, say, support forums. That’s off the divisive and rapid-change subjects that mostly characterise Reddit and Lemmy, of course.