Which project would be best for a local community hub?
from GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works to fediverse@lemmy.world on 04 Feb 16:18
https://sh.itjust.works/post/32220295

Mastadon? Lemmy? It would probably have to be standalone so people would’t be turned off from the content from the rest of the fediverse unless there’s a way to prevent federated content from showing on the instance. Just a place to post local news and discussions, maybe a place to sell secondhand. I live near a huge college with a major cs program, so I should be able to get users.

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Kichae@lemmy.ca on 04 Feb 16:26 next collapse

nodeBB might be a good fit. It’s a forum first, with remote content sort of in the background.

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 04 Feb 17:31 next collapse

Yeah, just a modern forum. NodeBB or Discourse, maybe Flarum. The first two even have some experimental federation support and for Flarum it is planned at least.

can@sh.itjust.works on 04 Feb 18:58 next collapse

I would be curious to see something try LemmyBB but I don’t know how complete it is.

GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works on 04 Feb 19:12 collapse

Do you know of any forums using it? Id like to take a look at it.

ptz@dubvee.org on 04 Feb 16:34 next collapse

Maybe Lemmy with federation disabled and use a nice 3rd party UI as the default interface for it. If you want to link up with similar community hubs, you can set federation to allow list mode and only federate with each other.

RobotToaster@mander.xyz on 04 Feb 16:55 collapse

Pretty sure lemmy can have the defaults set to local only, so you can keep the federation on, but by default local users only see local stuff.