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2023-06-01 11:23:54

small circle 🕊 in calmness via Fediverse Report

smallcircles@social.coop

Hurray ?

Forums on the #Fediverse.. The first version of the #ActivityPub plugin for #Discourse is now available.

Developed by The Pavilion.. check it out at: https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794

2023-06-01 13:26:20

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@smallcircles (Humane Tech Now) @Fediverse Report #Forums in the #Fediverse already exist. And they are older than the Fediverse itself.

And I'm not even talking about #Discourse which, by the way, will NOT let #Mastodon users interact with forums the same way as registered forum users. No, really not. Discourse will only advertise new threads through #ActivityPub. It will NOT let users of Mastodon etc. reply to threads. It will NOT let users of Mastodon etc. start new threads.

I'm talking about projects like #Friendica (est. 2010, 6 years older than Mastodon, 8 years older than ActivityPub) and #Hubzilla (est. 2012, 4 years older than Mastodon, 6 years older than ActivityPub). They had forums implemented long before there was Mastodon and long before there was ActivityPub.

Just like Discourse, these forums can be fully moderated. But just like #Guppe, just about everyone on every Fediverse project can interact with them. And unlike both Discourse and Guppe, they can be public as well as private/members-only.

2023-06-01 13:30:39

small circle 🕊 in calmness

smallcircles@social.coop

@jupiter_rowland yes, for sure.

Not saying this is the first forum on the fediverse, just the first version of the pluging that brings Dsicourse to the fediverse, and still has limited functionality.

More discussions on forum integrations are on socialhub e.g. at https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/flarum-forum-software-2-0-will-have-federation-support/3246