11 mo. ago • 97%

Discourse can now integrate with the Fediverse through ActivityPub Plugin

This could be an incredible development (or at least the start of something incredible :-). Right now discourse instances are maybe the highest quality online meeting and discussion places on the internet but they are all separate islands. Some sort of federation among them and maybe with other type...

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Every service that joins the fediverse the more terrifying the fediverse becomes to the big tech companies.

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- And none of that matters if we let the big tech companies into the Fediverse.
  
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  What we need to do is have a copyleft licence for all federated content so anyone who uses it for any purpose (data minibg ai etc) must make it opensource and federated then they can come do whatever they like good luck profiting if u cant own the servuce or the content.
  
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What is Discourse? Love the name of anything that references gives a nod to The Dialectic but I'm cautious...

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- An old style forum service with a modern twist, made by one of the founders of Stack Overflow
  
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  Specifically its co-creator was Jeff Atwood, who is also the writer of coding horror and recently posted a pretty good endorsement of Mastadon and other non-twitter services.
  
  He was actually one of only a dozen or so people I followed on very early twitter, before losing interest in the bullshit on there by 2010 or so and moving to Reddit.
  
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  Where/how I can haz?
  
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This is huge, they’re basically what every forum still out here use, you’ll rarely encounter anything else.

Given that Reddit became what every company and project use as a forum, I feel like this is a better alternative for them than Lemmy.

And maybe that will solve the biggest gripe I have with Discourse… The stupid way they display date and time. I once replied to a 4 year old’s post thinking it was a few days old…

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- Doesn't matter how old the post is. Stop talking to kids on the Internet. Why is that van door open??
  
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Wow... things are starting to come together! Existing projects won't need to install another service which makes it much easier to join the fediverse.

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This is great! Next stop: usenet

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you're allowed

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Very cool

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