What are the forum-like communities that are federated?
I mean, we got Kbin, Lemmy, PieFed, NodeBB, stuff like that. What else do they have on the fediverse that's like that?
Submitted 4 days ago by CraigCabbage@feddit.online to fediverse@lemmy.world
What are the forum-like communities that are federated?
I mean, we got Kbin, Lemmy, PieFed, NodeBB, stuff like that. What else do they have on the fediverse that's like that?
Are those not enough?
I'm just curious
Is there a federated Discourse? www.discourse.org
I’d like to see that.
there’s a plugin for it
!announcements@meta.discourse.org
Is there a list of any discourse "instances"?
there’s also hexbear, I go there for the megathreads mostly
Hexbear is a Lemmy instance
Brutalinks (HN/Lobsters clone, one-community per instance), lotide (minimalist, RIP), Prismo (RIP)
OpenStars@piefed.social 4 days ago
flarum, Misskey, Friendica, Mastodon, the list goes on - I don't know so much about non-Threadiverse ones but see e.g. https://fediverse.observer/ for more details.
Note that Kbin is (semi-)officially dead - there is only a single instance (in Poland, https://bin.pol.social/) that still uses it, and the last commit of its software was on Dec 20, 2023. Everyone else switched to its fork Mbin that is actively maintained. This community really should update its sidebar text, to drop Kbin and add PieFed and Mbin. Kbin was a great idea at some point - I never would have come over to "Lemmy" with its known reputation as the place where many of the trolls went who were banned from Reddit (it's... sigh... actually true), so Kbin was what convinced me to leave Reddit - and now Mbin carries its legacy onwards, but Kbin itself is extinct (I am not trying to be hyperbolic here, it just literally is).
There was also Sublinks but... its development got stalled by the main dev having a baby (its last commits were all in 2024 iirc).
PieFed is the hot topic though - all praise the PieFed. I admit to some bias in this regard:-P, however it is also backed up by the stats: not only do we get enormous updates practically weekly (often at least a minor one multiple times a week), but by comparison Mbin has about 700 MAUs (Monthly Active Users), compared to PieFed's ~1500 (more than twice that). Which should increase rapidly now that app support is in the process of being firmed up, especially experimental support in Voyager the #1 Threadiverse app. Somehow PieFed has surpassed Mbin and even Lemmy in several featured areas - and astonishingly even that of Reddit (whose development for many years now has focused on increasing profits, not necessarily offering things that their user base actually wanted) - mind you it is still being polished, and some (very few) areas still need heavy work (such as the search functionality).
cralex@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Plus PiFed also has a tool to migrate a community from a dying instance to itself. It’s not perfect, but it preserves old posts and comments and it’s fueled at least some growth.
CraigCabbage@feddit.online 4 days ago
Whoa, thank you! Flarum is federated? I had no idea, that's amazing!
julian@community.nodebb.org 4 days ago
Unfortunately it actually isn't. NodeBB (me!) and Discourse are the only two forums that federate.
NodeBB has full two-way support with discovery features, Discourse is mostly broadcast-style (i.e. you can't find Lemmy posts from Discourse)
poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
They had plans for it and afaik even got a NLnet grant, but life got in the way, so it is likely not going to happen soon.