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Discourse can now integrate with the Fediverse through ActivityPub Plugin (meta.discourse.org)

submitted 9 months ago by rglullis@communick.news to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 26 points 9 months ago

An old style forum service with a modern twist, made by one of the founders of Stack Overflow

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 9 months ago

Specifically its co-creator was Jeff Atwood, who is also the writer of coding horror and recently posted a pretty good endorsement of Mastadon and other non-twitter services.

He was actually one of only a dozen or so people I followed on very early twitter, before losing interest in the bullshit on there by 2010 or so and moving to Reddit.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Where/how I can haz?

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

You can either rent an instance, or run your own.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I'd rather not host anything, I more meant like participate in a Lemmy.world type deal?

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Ah, okay. That's not how that works, forums are usually used for specific contexts, like support from a specific company.

As an example, Guild Wars 2 for the longest time - don't know whether they still do - ran a forum that was a highly customized version of Discourse. Turtle Rock also used it for their support forum. Fairphone's forums are entirely on Discourse (and it's pretty obvious in their case as they use a quite vanilla installation).

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Thank you for enlightening me, I didn't really get it when I first encountered it. Like, how's that different from like ZenDesk?

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Its not proprietary software and not owned by a for profit company. Also because of the previous things, you can heavily modify it to fit the thing your forum is about.