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What would you like to see on the Fediverse? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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The Fediverse is growing and we have decently successful platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon. What else would you like to see?

Any big tech platform not yet replaced or maybe something new altogether? What are we missing?

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[–] 12 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Forums for long, linear discussion, like phpBB or Discourse, with good discoverability.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Discourse has an ActivityPub plugin: https://discourse.org/plugins/activitypubThis plugin, for example, is enabled on SocialHub https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/about (it's a forum for fediverse developers)

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    No discoverablity. There is no directory that lets me find interesting forums the way I can find lemmy communities.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    How do you discover Lemmy communities? Federated categories in Discourse work in the same way, so a tool capable of discovering Lemmy communities should also be capable of discovering Discourse forums.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    nodeBB literally is forum software in the Fediverse. I don't know if it can do strictly linear like phpBB, though.

    Or you create a channel on Hubzilla. You can configure it for your stream to be strictly linear as opposed to be tree-style. And then you can join Lemmy communities, /kbin or Mbin magazines, PieFed communities, nodeBB subforums, Friendica groups, Hubzilla forums, (streams) groups, Forte groups, you name them, and they're all strictly linear from your POV. It's just that you, on Hubzilla, will always only directly reply to the start post (as opposed to the most recent comment) when the thread itself at its source is actually tree-style.

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