I for one would want a more open source system where a single guy running a server doesn't have all the power in the forum. It would be awesome if a fedi form of forums took over and one could replicate all the info as relays.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

So you basically mean something like Lemmy but for forums?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Yup. But also note that Lemmy is not redundant. You can bring back this channel but without our conversation. We need redundancy and replication.

[–] functionIsOdd@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But isn't Lemmy already a forum-like (i guess) platform? Like there are boards (or whatever they are called here, i don't remember, "subreddits") about discussing some topic and you can make threads discussing said topic. Bam, a forum, right?

Or do forums have something that Lemmy (or at this point Reddit) don't?

[–] tfm@europe.pub 4 points 3 days ago

I'd also call it a forum format. Btw subreddits are simply called communities here :)

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Content aggregators are not forums. Just having categories doesn't really cover it. CAs are designed so that old posts fall away quickly, so that people will keep posting new top level content and keep people emgaged in the constant scroll, much like Twitter or Facebook. They are largely unstructured, with different "categories" behaving quasi-independently from one another.

Forums are structured spaces where the same people post stuff to the same categories, that are mostly offshoots of the forum's core theme.

People interact with and behave rather differently in these different contexts.

[–] blue_berry@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Isn't NodeBB compatible with the Fediverse by now?

[–] tfm@europe.pub 3 points 3 days ago

Haven't heard about NodeBB yet but it looks awesome! Also, yes it looks like it's supporting federation.

[–] EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago

Message Boards are fundamentally different and I don't see a lot of value in federating them considering the big message board platform (phpBB) has 25 years of development and is GPL.

Message Boards are more elaborate versions of subreddits/communities. In all of those instances there is still a single entity that has "all the power in the forum". You can join another lemmy server, but the admin of that community is still the admin, and the entity controlling the server that community is on likewise, controls the community.

I guess you could have a universal account that could be used across different message boards, but Personally I'd hate that.

[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

I see this going further underground as fascism takes over. The corporate influence was bad enough before but with the Nazis in coming to power again, many of us are going to have to dive underground.

Imagine such absurdity. The Internet. The land of “forbidden knowledge.”

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Like lemmy?

Anyway, there's nodebb.

[–] skytrim@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

It sounds good in principle but would be hard to do in practice because everyone would have to do a lot of work negotiating 'standards' (technical stuff and editorial principles like how to handle NSFW content etc) that would apply universally across the federation of forums and as this is all voluntary work it is asking a lot of people.