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Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

tfm@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

If you are a company looking for a forum, you want to be able to control it. Unfederated means you can control account access and don’t have to worry about someone going to All and seeing porn etc.

We’re talking about Reddit. It’s one of the biggest porn sites out there. If anything, it’s way easier to control what your employees see if they are on a company instance.

Also, which company uses Reddit as their forum? Most of the ones I have seen use Discourse, which is open source but unfortunately not federated.

Federated could work, but you need to make it clear that it’s just a community on a platform.

We’re all a big community. I think people get this quickly.

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Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

If anything, it’s way easier to control what your employees see if they are on a company instance. …that was entirely my point.

Also, which company uses Reddit as their forum? lots of small apps, orgs, communities etc just have a subreddit and a discord server. Lots of bigger companies have official or semi-official subreddits.

We’re all a big community. I think people get this quickly. Someone wanting to get support for their hoover or something may not. they create an account to discuss the pros and cons of certain hoover and see loads of random stuff about American politics and Linux. Their going to get real confused. Most people have heard of reddit now though (and to a lesser extent discord)

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