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Lemmy as a discussion forum (leminal.space)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 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. ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

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