this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024
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Honestly a lemmy community wouldn't be a bad format. It's basically a forum
Normally I'd say that reddit/lemmy are poor choices for a community - but if the competitor is a live-chat like discord? Yeah. Lemmy is better.
Project leads would just need to make sure to direct users straight to a specific instance that allows instant/unmoderated sign-ups, or else that element of friction will occur -- and certainly not start the whole "there's many instances, pick the one that's right for you!" spiel, or users will give up immediately. I thought similarly about matrix - on-boarding users to a matrix community would be helped by explicitly writing a guide for them to do so, but then we're back to step 1, where making a discord channel is quicker than writing instructions.
Lemmy seems better for asking questions/problem solving, but it doesn't seem as good for growing a community or more casual chatting about a project because discord has that social aspect and demands much less effort for each 'post'.
There have been projects that skin Lemmy to be like a forum, based on phpBB code if I recall. Don't think the projects are active though.
Technically it is ActivityPub actor