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Julian Lam - Forums over Feeds: End the doomscroll Threadiverse Ideas & Essay (video.fedihost.co)
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NodeBB: @julian@community.nodebb.org
Mastodon: @julian@activitypub.space

The co-founder of NodeBB, an open-source community forum platform with built-in ActivityPub support, connecting traditional forums to the social web, makes the case for bringing forums back.

Corporate feeds are optimized to keep you scrolling past what you actually came for; Fediverse feeds avoid the manipulation but still dump everything into a single unstructured stream. Forums, with their categories, persistence, and searchability, are the missing third space, and NodeBB's ActivityPub integration lets a forum curate content from across the Fediverse by hashtag while participating in the wider social web. A pitch for municipal governments, libraries, and interest communities to claim their own digital town halls instead of shouting into someone else's feed.

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[โ€“] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What are forums ??๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Forum (nodebb) are quite similar to link aggregators (piefed, lemmy, mbin) But there are slight differences :

    • Category (forum) โ‰ˆ community (link aggregator)
    • lemmy, mbin, piefed are link aggregators. That meant we mainly share link in a community and talk about it in comments.
    • on forum, you there are several post in a category. They rarely share link, content. They are more geared to the discussion on a topic and share link
    • The difference is the UI. Julian is the cofounder of nodeBB. See his forum : https://community.nodebb.org
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