It’s undoubtedly nice during that step of the process, but afterwards you’re on a platform that may not be well suited to the purpose. It’d be better just to make the new account on an actual forum. Granted, I use Bitwarden now, so I don’t sweat making new accounts anymore.

This makes me wonder if there is a centralized system for forums. We have stackexchange already, but that’s really designed to be a question and answer site.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Discourse, NodeBB and Flarum are all currently working on ActivityPub federation support. The first two have some basic support already available.

Edit: I read "decentralized". The "centralized" system for forums is obviously Reddit.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This makes me wonder if there is a centralized system for forums.

Is this not what Lemmy is, to a certain extent?

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy is not a Forum…

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

No, but it has several forum-like features. Each Lemmy community is kind of like a mini-forum, with posts, threads, comments, etc. Lemmy is certainly more forum-like than Discord is.