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The Fediverse/ActivityPub world has a few options: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps#user-content-link-sharing-forum-and-group-apps https

The Fediverse/ActivityPub world has a few options: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps#user-content-link-sharing-forum-and-group-apps https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps#use... Lemmy is the best-known in that list, but Kbin and lotide both look pretty promising, too - making my decision of which to spin up as a personal instance much more challenging :)

mariusor 3y ago
Brutalinks doesn't? It's right there at the top. :P
- yellowapple 3y ago
  Those three were the ones I was able to try out (and that seemed to work reasonably well). Do you have a sample Brutalinks instance running somewhere? If so, then happy to give it a whirl and add it to my list of options :)
  - mariusor 3y ago
    There is a demo instance where I test the latest code[1], but my purpose as a developer is to make the project better not to admin/moderate a discussion platform. My hope was that communities come together and put up their own servers. [1] https://brutalinks.tech https://brutalinks.tech
    - yellowapple 3y ago
      I dig it; you've made my self-imposed task of "figure out which of these I like best" that much harder lol Noticing that it's more like HN than reddit, in the sense that there's no equivalent to a subreddit AFAICT. Fine for my purposes, but are there any implications around that when it comes to federating with e.g. Lemmy or Kbin (which very much do have subreddit-like subtopics)?
      - mariusor 3y ago
        > there's no equivalent to a subreddit AFAICT The idea (maybe not very well communicated in the README and other docs[1]) is that each instance would correspond to a "subreddit" with its distinct community. The federated aspect however still allows users from other instances to subscribe/participate. In my personal opinion building services that group multiple interests is a step in the wrong direction creating redundancy to the concept of federation itself. [1] https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/brutalinks/as-a-reddit-alternative.md#stewardship-model https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/brutalinks/as-a-r...
        yellowapple 3y ago
        Fair enough. For my purposes I only really need a single subreddit-equivalent for my own (prospective) instance; my worry's more around making sure my Brutalinks instance can make sense of the various multi-interest instances/services out there.
thal3s 3y ago
Kbin is very close to the Reddit UI and Lemmy is nice as well. I've used both since last week and user engagement on both is through the roof. I'd encourage anyone to at least check them out.

mariusor 3y ago

Brutalinks doesn't? It's right there at the top. :P

yellowapple 3y ago
Those three were the ones I was able to try out (and that seemed to work reasonably well). Do you have a sample Brutalinks instance running somewhere? If so, then happy to give it a whirl and add it to my list of options :)
- mariusor 3y ago
  There is a demo instance where I test the latest code[1], but my purpose as a developer is to make the project better not to admin/moderate a discussion platform. My hope was that communities come together and put up their own servers. [1] https://brutalinks.tech https://brutalinks.tech
  - yellowapple 3y ago
    I dig it; you've made my self-imposed task of "figure out which of these I like best" that much harder lol Noticing that it's more like HN than reddit, in the sense that there's no equivalent to a subreddit AFAICT. Fine for my purposes, but are there any implications around that when it comes to federating with e.g. Lemmy or Kbin (which very much do have subreddit-like subtopics)?
    - mariusor 3y ago
      > there's no equivalent to a subreddit AFAICT The idea (maybe not very well communicated in the README and other docs[1]) is that each instance would correspond to a "subreddit" with its distinct community. The federated aspect however still allows users from other instances to subscribe/participate. In my personal opinion building services that group multiple interests is a step in the wrong direction creating redundancy to the concept of federation itself. [1] https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/brutalinks/as-a-reddit-alternative.md#stewardship-model https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/brutalinks/as-a-r...
      - yellowapple 3y ago
        Fair enough. For my purposes I only really need a single subreddit-equivalent for my own (prospective) instance; my worry's more around making sure my Brutalinks instance can make sense of the various multi-interest instances/services out there.

thal3s 3y ago

Kbin is very close to the Reddit UI and Lemmy is nice as well. I've used both since last week and user engagement on both is through the roof. I'd encourage anyone to at least check them out.