Commune is an extension of Matrix to make rooms web-public and threads-enabled. Layered unobtrusively on top of your existing Synapse server; most of the setup can be left up to us.
We’d like to eventually be a plug-and-play extension for any Matrix network, including Matrix.org 🌐
..so as a first step, we wanna work on interop with the smaller #IndieWeb networks as our earliest adopters.
@erlend very nice, looking forward to trying! This seems to have some potential for convergence/federation with the [[Agora]] project which we are trying to build, would love to discuss opportunities for integration.
The Agora interacts with activitypub through bots currently, the main integration point currently is at the level of digital gardens hosted on git by default.
@samuel ah, what gave you the impression that it’s being built on AP? We will get into some AP integrations further down the line, but it’s in no way a backbone of the app the way Matrix is.
Great to see this, and good blog (am still reading).
The marriage of chat + forum on the characteristics you list is an important one.
Once you have 2 separate community channels, say a #Matrix chat and a #Discourse forum, you immediately have a problem. The chat is so low-barrier that important info to be kept longer term ends up there and gets lost in the chat flow history. It requires reminding all the time "Please take this to forum".
@erlend@matrix are you familiar with [[bonfire]] by @mayel -- an activitypub implementation with the same name that seems to have also some overlap in scope?
@flancian the main difference is that Bonfire is an all-in-one app with a bespoke implementation of various workflows. Our approach is much more reliant on protocols and interop between them.
@erlend@boris and what is described in the post. i have meaningful exchanges in chat, then deeper conversations in forums, and sometimes i’ll write a piece on my blog. yet those are all islands, and not always linkable.
@bentsai@erlend not quite the same picture, but @blaine sketched out different types of communication mediums are appropriate for different kinds of personas or types of communication.
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