• Abnorc@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    It’s undoubtedly nice during that step of the process, but afterwards you’re on a platform that may not be well suited to the purpose. It’d be better just to make the new account on an actual forum. Granted, I use Bitwarden now, so I don’t sweat making new accounts anymore.

    This makes me wonder if there is a centralized system for forums. We have stackexchange already, but that’s really designed to be a question and answer site.

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      8 months ago

      Discourse, NodeBB and Flarum are all currently working on ActivityPub federation support. The first two have some basic support already available.

      Edit: I read “decentralized”. The “centralized” system for forums is obviously Reddit.

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      8 months ago

      This makes me wonder if there is a centralized system for forums.

      Is this not what Lemmy is, to a certain extent?

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          8 months ago

          No, but it has several forum-like features. Each Lemmy community is kind of like a mini-forum, with posts, threads, comments, etc. Lemmy is certainly more forum-like than Discord is.