@davidbisset most of my stuff is RSS now, but more sites need to really support it at a standard. It makes them less money, but hopefully they can get over that. I'm hoping #Discourse integrates #ActivityPub more, they have it in the early stages as an extension. There's also the #phpbb forum software that is working on polished Activitypub support as well. So I'm hoping we get the start of a revival of forums in 2024. I already saw momentum with #fedi blogs last year as well.
@veloren I've used Mattermost and Discourse a lot myself.
Mattermost makes sense when you want to use it like Slack - the thing it's a clone of. It's best used when you have little teams/subgroups of people tackling certain medium- to long-persisting areas of development or work, which are organized into "channels". Channels are sort of like "mega-threads." Each of these channels/mega-threads has a system of permissions on it as to who's allowed in, "pinned" posts, etc. The included "Boards" (kanban board feature) is additionally like Trello - great for making todo lists and tracking tasks, with comments, etc.
Discourse makes sense when it's a bunch of disjoint, random little questions about anything and everything (you know, "threads"), and there isn't any sense of coordinated teamwork.
Of the two, I prefer #Mattermost team server, because it's more lightweight (written in #Go, will run even on a #RaspberryPi 4), and has a decent #Android App with push notifications. #Discourse has a less likeable mobile experience, IMHO.
Mattermost is for people who need to get a larger project (comprised of many sub-projects) done. Discourse is just for bantering forever on some broad, wide-open area of discussion, never converging on anything.
I have maintained, and continue to maintain, that my concerns about #Meta and the #Fediverse have nothing to do with threads as such and everything to do with how they act around the protocol.
Them releasing a client or a server would be very, very bad news in this space. Them running a multi-tenant (or multi-single-tenant) setup would be very, very bad for the fediverse.
Their presence on a single domain just doesn't say or do all that much in the grand scheme of things.
@hrefna my two cents: chasing the dwindling former twitter addict pool (which seems to be the meta/threads objective) is not the future of the #fediverse.
Its unique appealing proposition is not social media as we have come to dislike, but it is the federation of very diverse types of servers where people create real and lasting value. Think e.g., all these important #discourse communities.
Imho the protocol(s) should leapfrog to the desired end state and leave the mastodon era behind.
#Discourse, you mean the org using cloudfront.net (AWS), a tool to gather lots of personal data and make the Internet a capitalist private network infrastructure for its website?
What a huge progress for a free distributed world we can trust, for sure!
#SCOTUS is likely to decide the cases by June, in the critical months ahead of the #election.
#FirstAmendment experts warn that either argument could lead to outcomes that would be deleterious for #democracy. If the court rules in favor of the #tech companies, the industry could argue that the 1A precludes a broad array of proposed #regulation. If the states win, govts across the country may push ahead w/rules that give states unprecedented #influence over #political#discourse#online.
I'm legit super impressed with the @Discourse tutorial with discobot! It's very well executed in orienting the user with the software and features and simulating interactions. Much better than the popping up of bubbles in different parts of the interface while you're just trying to navigate (they do that too, not a fan but I get why). Good work Discourse team!
"Deficiencies of power in the present are compensated with claims of grandeur and power in the future. This is one of the many reasons why the stronger power usually has to take the first step. Resolving things requires setting most of those narratives and aspirations to the side to arrive at some way to live together in the present."
The power of forums of ol’ linked to conversations here: I love what tinkerers of the open web are managing to achieve nowadays. What Threads is doing for Meta is in no way the important piece of news. Read better. #Discourse#ActivityPub
Sehr cool, die Forum-Software Discourse hat ihr Activity Pub Plugin am Laufen und föderiert jetzt zwischen den eigenen Instanzen und wohl auch mit anderen Projekten im #Fediverse#Discourse ActivityPub Plugin
Big welcome to @Discourse for joining the Fediverse!
Discourse is what we use for Fedora Discussion, our forum space for long-form async communication. It enables us to have in-depth conversations with important moderation tools. Also, it provides an alternative to our mailing lists as a way of collaborating on Fedora in a way that may be more accessible to newcomers. :)
Je cherche des tuto pour installer #Discourse sur Docker Synology et j’en trouve nul part !
J’ai vu que @portesimaginaire pouvait proposer des solutions d’herbergement. Mais j’aimerais tenter de le faire fonctionner sur mon NAS.
I'm super impressed, it installed easily, it scales easily, it's really clean, the admin UI is simple and intuitive, it looks like #Discourse but without the "we only ship a container, if you want better then buy our hosting" nonsense! Top. 👌 #foss
I'm hiring a developer at @Discourse. Experience in Ruby on Rails and/or Ember is a plus. We're all remote at Discourse but this job posting is only for candidates in the Americas.
#CfP for the #conference "Imagining Italy: Space, #Gender and #Discourse in #Women’s Writing 1789-1914 // L’Italie sous la plume des femmes : espace, #genre, #discours 1789-1914", which will take place at the University of Lorraine (#Univ_Lorraine) on November 7 and 8, 2024.
what do y'all think? : ""The biggest climate issue is a bunch of egotistical men who refuse to change," she says, referring to the heads of multinational corporations." - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-67522279
i'm a cultural anthropologist (amateur), so my interest in her statement has less to do with "is she making an accurate statement" and more to do with: what is it that drives the desire to come up with 'the biggest issue with ___" or "the main problem with ___"? because there definitely is a desire to figure out the "root cause" of this thing (so that it can be "fixed"). but i don't know if that's possible.
i used to have this desire myself! it drove my activism... and my lack of activism - because i "couldn't figure out the root cause". analysis paralysis is a consequence of this kind of "root cause" thinking.
not to say that there aren't root causes (there may even be a root cause yet!), but that the search for a root cause can be a particular kind of activism failure mode. it's one that i think i was stuck in for way too long.
and to be clear, i DO think it's important to look for root causes, i just don't know if there's a SINGLE root cause.
i think that we are trapped in a tangled web that is
a systemic problem (a problem of systems that create outcomes regardless of which individual people are running the systems)
that is also a problem of a specific kind of masculinity (NOT a problem that's like something about men themselves as humans)
AND ALSO a problem of literal individual egotistical human men lol. (as today, kissinger death day, should remind us all.) sometimes it really does make the difference to remove literally 1 egomaniacal human man from a group situation. and sometimes that one man is fucking impossible to get at (especially since you can't get to them with guillotines anymore).
AND THAT ALSO has a bunch of other root causes like colonialism, slavery, human separation from nature, spiritual poverty, devaluing of animal and plant life, devaluing of the land, the concept of 'owning land', racism, heteronormativity, ableism, the legal system that protects corporations, the market system, the belief in and desire for hierarchies, the desire for an ordered and controlled world, "ends justify the means" thinking, and a million other things.
i don't know if there's a way to get free of this web (i certainly feel very wrapped up in it), but i can still use my teeth to bite at the little pieces of web around me & my friends & the little piece of land around me!