I agree on this topic of “dogfooding”. I think the aversion stems from people perceiving what fedi currently offers as still insufficient / too immature set of tools, or just not knowing how to best wield fedi. What tools do we need? Chat, forum, docs. Microblogging can be a replacement for chat (if we don’t use matrix, which may be better suited). For forum with a more async, long-term discussion and archive forming Lemmy comes close. Having docs in a federated manner would be nice too. Feder...

The lack of deeper integrations between different app types and the federated identity issue (every instance their own signup and user acccount) form significant barrier to widespread collaboration is my general observation.

For instance in any well-received toot with a link to a SocialHub forum topic on average no one takes the effort to respond on SocialHub. Mostly the discussion remains microblogging, and then it sinks into history when activity peters out. The insights and collective knowledge isn’t gathered and lost.

  • smallcirclesOPM
    1•2 years ago

    Currently and unexpectedly (and I must add for the first time in years) there’s a significant issue causing SocialHub forum to go down. It is crashing for well over a week now, right at the time of the Musk fedizen influx and when the server maintainer cannot spend a lot of time to look real deep into it. The cause is unknown and a server restart only gives temporary reprieve. Possibly a Hetzner related problem.

    This highlights the importance of using federated tools for fedi development, but also with the added requirement that there are no single points of failure in that (If lemmy.ml would go down, then would !fediversefutures@lemmy.ml still be accessible?)