For those who prefer a bulletin board interface for the #Fediverse, this is pretty darn attractive. Anyone who was active with Internet forums back in the ‘90s and ‘00s would love this quite a lot.
As many of us know, the problem with old Internet forums is that, while they provided a cozy community for folks who liked to follow specific topics, they often died because the likes of Facebook simply had a larger network effect.
But with NodeBB and ActivityPub, Internet forums may soon find that they have a network effect of hundreds of millions of people.
If you ever used Internet forums but have since stopped, would NodeBB’s foray into the Fediverse have you increase your participation with them again?
I'd love for some niche forums to get integrated with the Fediverse like bikeforums.net and some local spaces, and it'll will be awesome to follow those conversations in my preferred fediverse apps instead of the legacy clients.
@atomicpoet@fediversenews really cool to see @julian@devnull get some publicity. I'm so excited for stuff like this. AP needs more variety of types of services just to show off what this awesome protocol can do!
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