Do you know any Lemmy instances not federated with other ones, living by themselves? Do you know any interesting or creative use case for a not federated instance?

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Since the "forums" came up several times: I'd agree. In this case you'd choose something like Discourse or Flarum. Those are non-federated forums. And they offer some nice features, Lemmy doesn't have. A lot of Free Software projects use Discourse. It's more lightweight, has proven to be robust, it offers moderation features that are tailored to the use case, better ways to organize posts, you can mark correct answers, integrate itinto other services and do 50 other things plus install plugins. It's just better and easier to do it that way. And that's why people do it.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Discourse is more lightweight? It's consistently the slowest loading software that I use and lags everywhere

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I thought I did something wrong and it was just me... Alright, take Flarum then, that seems to work on a Raspberry Pi. Or NodeBB if that's still a thing... Why is Discourse so heavy and at the same time that popular?

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

I guess because it's featureful, easy and they provide a hosted, white labeled service. It's not great, but it's a safe useable bet. Most organizations don't want to worry about it too much