What are the forum-like communities that are federated?
from CraigCabbage@feddit.online to fediverse@lemmy.world on 08 Jul 01:11
https://feddit.online/post/840617

I mean, we got Kbin, Lemmy, PieFed, NodeBB, stuff like that. What else do they have on the fediverse that’s like that?

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TheRedSpade@lemmy.world on 08 Jul 01:49 next collapse

Are those not enough?

CraigCabbage@feddit.online on 08 Jul 02:05 collapse

I'm just curious

OpenStars@piefed.social on 08 Jul 01:53 next collapse

flarum (edit: this one seemingly not yet?), 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. Edit: also nice list at https://joinfediverse.wiki/Fediverse_projects . And another at the sidebar of !fediverse@piefed.social .

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, as far as actively maintained software goes).

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). On the other hand, it is written in Python, unlike Lemmy that is in Rust (which very few devs know, or want to know it seems, at least among those willing to donate efforts to the codebase), so feature tinkering is expected to proceed at a rapid pace for as long as people have ideas that they want to see added.

cralex@lemmy.zip on 08 Jul 02:21 next collapse

Plus PieFed 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 on 08 Jul 02:41 collapse

Whoa, thank you! Flarum is federated? I had no idea, that's amazing!

julian@community.nodebb.org on 08 Jul 02:50 next collapse

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)

Fizz@lemmy.nz on 08 Jul 03:53 next collapse

Oh discourse federates? Thats awesome

aasatru@kbin.earth on 08 Jul 08:24 collapse

Is there a pretty list of federated NodeBB forums anywhere? I like to check out which ones are listed on fedidb every now and then, but it's not the most convenient list as the topic of the forum is often obscure based on its name.

(I really enjoy being able to follow and participate in communities in forums around the web - thanks for making it possible!)

CraigCabbage@feddit.online on 08 Jul 10:09 collapse

I use fediverse.observer (https://nodebb.fediverse.observer/list)

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 08 Jul 05:01 collapse

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.

OpenStars@piefed.social on 08 Jul 11:53 collapse

Thanks for the update - it looks like I need to stop spreading misinformation. Sigh, and Loops as well - people like to generate all this excitement but actually delivering is a whole other matter:-(.

julian@community.nodebb.org on 08 Jul 13:32 collapse

Loops is newly funded, so that round is still active. I still wouldn't get hype about it until it happens though! 😉

OpenStars@piefed.social on 08 Jul 15:26 collapse

Ooh, interesting. Thanks for the heads-up:-)

Diva@lemmy.ml on 08 Jul 03:12 next collapse

there’s also hexbear, I go there for the megathreads mostly

Transform2942@lemmy.ml on 08 Jul 04:02 collapse

Hexbear is a Lemmy instance

paequ2@lemmy.today on 08 Jul 04:09 next collapse

Is there a federated Discourse? www.discourse.org

I’d like to see that.

Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com on 08 Jul 05:08 collapse

there’s a plugin for it

!announcements@meta.discourse.org

CraigCabbage@feddit.online on 08 Jul 10:13 collapse

Is there a list of any discourse "instances"?

Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com on 08 Jul 14:13 collapse

Kinda: discover.discourse.com

I don’t think it’s a complete list, but also there’s no way to filter by which ones have the ActivityPub plugin

Kierunkowy74@piefed.social on 08 Jul 23:57 collapse

Brutalinks (HN/Lobsters clone, one-community per instance), lotide (minimalist, RIP), Prismo (RIP)