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How would you guys feel about a "debate oriented" instance+fork of lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My friend and I are thinking about making an instance dedicated to debate and forking lemmy to add some debating features.

What features would you like and what do you think about the idea?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Isn't Lemmy a type of forum?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Depends on who you talk to. I think it counts as a forum, but not everyone agrees as it doesn't fit the "classic" forum style of having only a comment depth of one and replying by quoting. At the same time, Lemmy doesn't allow for nested communities (aka subforums) for complex, hierarchical organization of topics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

We also have a sort called "New comments", that essentially turns lemmy into a forum without the sub-categories, allowing old posts to be bumped to the top and never die ( as opposed to constantly bringing new content which is the default ).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

The federation handles the subforums, but it's only depth 1. That's basically what I'm planning for this instance; there will be communities for science, tech, politics, etc but they all focus on debating.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago

FYI it would be possible to create a new frontend for Lemmy which looks like a traditional forum.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/client_development/custom_frontend.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Behind scenes Lemmy is something like a social network instead of a typical 'static' forum site.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

What do you mean by "'static' forum"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The frontend behavior of most of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Are there any specific distinguishing features?