Frank DaviesMar 1

How do fedi people feel about Matrix in 2026? Context: I am looking at some options for hosting a community with persistent communication (i.e. not mastodon style).

Ideally I would just use old-school mailing lists but self-hosting those seems impossible given restrictions on email nowadays.

#Fediverse #Matrix

Show threadRobert Riemann 🇪🇺Mar 1

@fd93 check out https://discourse.org

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/
https://talk.lagedernation.org/
https://discuss.kde.org/

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Show threadFrank DaviesMar 1
@rriemann Discourse is totally on my list - how does it compare to Lemmy?
Show threadRobert Riemann 🇪🇺Mar 1
@fd93 Discourse is not distributed (#ActivityPub) and people need a distinct account. Discourse is also good for knowledge management, questions and answers pages, newsletters. It encourages longer posts.
Show threadFrank DaviesMar 1
@rriemann Sounds good, I will spin it up somewhere. I gotta add Isso to my blog posts as well, since that's probably the bare minimum in terms of talking to people who read my stuff
Show thread🫧 socialcoding..Mar 1

@fd93 @rriemann

Discourse has an official ActivityPub plugin, though it is fairly rudimentary at this point, and needs more love I'd say.

The #SocialHub community forum is federated, for instance. https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks and is also used by the AP plugin maintainers for testing the functionality.

SocialHub

Where ActivityPub developers coordinate their efforts to make the Fediverse a great space for cooperation

SocialHub
Show threadFrank DaviesMar 1
@smallcircles @rriemann Looks cool; if they have the option for people to subscribe to threads via RSS I know a lot of fedi types like @jelloeater appreciate that
Show threadLutin DiscretMar 1
@fd93 check out #flarum and #piefed too
Show threadFrank Davies

@lutindiscret oh, I like the look of flarum but php setup 🤢

hello 2006 my old friend

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