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Lemmy as a discussion forum (leminal.space)

submitted 1 day ago by tetrislife@leminal.space to c/programming@programming.dev

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Are there communities, free software/open source or otherwise, using Lemmy as their forum software?

Nowadays, many use Discourse, some are on Zulip, and I just don't care about the Discord ones. Would Lenmy not fit the same purposes? It is federated and easier to participate in, like mailing lists - no need to sign up per forum. Matrix is too, but it doesn't seem to be made for long-form writing.

I believe Discourse was designed based on experience with community dynamics, and Zulip is well-designed too. Would something with federated participation like Lemmy not work as well?

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[–] foster@lemmy.hangdaan.com 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I'm open to the idea of using Lemmy for discussions, and feature requests, for my open-source software projects. My projects are on a self-hosted Forgejo instance and Forgejo currently lacks a discussion feature. But, unfortunately, none of my projects are popular enough to deserve a discussion board. 😭

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The sad thing about forgejo servers is that our stuff might be popular if the projects were not so isolated. I want federation so bad but I feel like I was waiting for years now

[–] foster@lemmy.hangdaan.com 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I think the Forgejo project should be given some leniency when it comes to the development of its federation. After all, no other software forge has achieved such a feat as of this date, not even the likes of Gitlab.

The good news is that we don't have to wait for Forgejo federation. We already have software, such as Lemmy, that can supplement as a federated discussion and issue board. To maintain an audit trail, just cross-reference between Forgejo issues and Lemmy posts as needed.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can setup a Lemmy community and link it in all your project repos. Sooner or later people will show up.

[–] foster@lemmy.hangdaan.com 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Yeah, you're right. I should start now instead of waiting for popularity to kick in (if ever). I've begun to create one community, per project, on my Lemmy instance.