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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 (1 child)

Perhaps it's less "I should be able to see everything anybody has said about dogs" to "I should have the ability to..."

For many on traditional social media it's an expectation, even if they're being lied to (they're only seeing a subset based on language, preference, and a thousand other metrics).

On the fediverse it's more plainly visible that you're not getting everything, but that can be a feature, too, not a bug.

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