Using Discourse as a social media platform
meta.discourse.org
I proposed an investment up to 200,000 € to accomplish this earlier, but there were no takers. Actually, @erlend_sh made a proposal on the behalf of the Discourse team, which was accepted by the NGI Zero consortium. Then he left the company and the proposal was left dangling for some time until @rishabh took it over, and there was a new enthusiasm. But then the application was dropped entirely. The offer still stands. If you’re interested in picking this up, I suggest to pursue the discussion o...

Some time after the Discourse as a company decided to return the NGI Zero funding they received for adding federation support, another company, the Pavilion cooperative - a Discourse forum integrator and plugin developer - has decided to pick up the glove and re-apply for funding. They’ll probably start developing in 2022.

Of course this is wonderful news. Discourse is developer and supplier of one of the best community forum softwares to be had, and very popular for use in FOSS projects and many open initiatives.

This move towards the Fediverse is in part thanks to various SocialHub members, who kept the topic alive on Discourse’s own forum. And it was Hellekin, admin of SocialHub and mentor for NGI0 funding, who gave the deciding push.

See also this fediverse thread. I have cross-posted this to the SocialHub forum.

  • LunaticHacker
    3•3 years ago

    This will help Lemmy to connect to feriverse too 😍