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 ...

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.

  • vogi@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The last couple of weeks ive been cleaning up old accounts i had still around, but kept quite a few up most notable one of forums I used to frequent many of them dead but not all, and with that I also created new ones. One thing I have noticed is that you really do not need a critical mass for a forum to “function” its fine if there is no post for a day if the discussions you have are valuable.