Hi! Another question about lemmy development.

Is lemmy working towards functioning more with discourse, flarum and nodebb federations?

I think that mastodon kinda fucked the fediverse and having a costellation of linked forums is much more powerful than microblogging so i’m interested in using lemmy as a forum more than a simple link aggregator

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Not that I’m aware.

    But there are web UIs you can run that allow you to run a lemmy instance more like a forum, and that could of course be federated with other fediverse instances, including other forum instances.

    But not existing forum systems. That’s something they have to implement, not lemmy.

    Behind the scenes Lemmy speaks a protocol called ActivityPub. It can’t just talk to any other similar arbitrary service if it doesn’t also support the protocol.

    Edit: Apparently the forum systems you mention do/will indeed support ActivityPub. There would certainly be potential for interpretability with the threadiverse, then.

    • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      The nodbb lead dev is part of the threadiverse workinf group, which is focused on interoperability between different AP-based platforms, and the federated nodebb forum topics are currently available via lemmy: [email protected], [email protected]

    • ex_06@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Apparently the forum systems you mention do/will indeed support ActivityPub. There would certainly be potential for interpretability with the threadiverse, then

      Yes, there is also a working group specifically about “threadiverse” (even tho the lemmy devs don’t like the term)

      Hence why my question :3

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        What? It’s a great umbrella term term for exactly this type of federated social media. Lemmy is just one application, and currently the biggest, but it already federates quite swimmingly with mbin and pixelfed.

        What else would you even them all together?

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        1 month ago

        ActivityPub unfortunately does need some work, and there’s drama about properly following the protocol and not extending it with non-standard stuff that then breaks things when federating with stuff outside the given application.

        I’m optimistic, but I’m also making sure not to put too much of a stake in it, as it may eventually become an inferior system when compared to some future hypothetical standard.

        And other standards like diaspora and ATProto, are around, and seeing use.