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I'm always happy to see an org host their own forum, but as a user I've found the friction of needing yet another account enough to prevent me from casually par
by apitman 3y ago
I'm always happy to see an org host their own forum, but as a user I've found the friction of needing yet another account enough to prevent me from casually participating in a lot of them.
Social SSO isn't a solution because I'm not interested in Google tracking every community I log in to.
I'm surprised there isn't a popular forum built on ActivityPub yet. The ActivityPub dev community doesn't even dogfood one, they use Discourse[0]. It could work like a normal forum for users who don't participate in the Fediverse, but for those who do you could post from your existing Mastodon/Lemmy/etc ActivityPub account.
[0]: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/robin-berjon-running-activitypub-over-atproto/3707 https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/robin-berjon-running-a...
- kbenson 3y agoGiven your complaint, what benefit is there to building a forum on ActivityPub over just allowing ActivityPub as a login mechanism?
- apitman 3y agoI'm assuming you mean sending a one time passcode to the AP account? I think that would be a great idea. But it's also highly phishable. And full AP integration allows users to own their data if they want.
- proactivesvcs 3y agoDiscourse is currently working on AP federation: https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794/117 https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794/117 I am pretty excited for the future of the open Web for the first time in a long time.
- julianlam 3y agoThe fact that the Socialhub uses Discourse is as you said, no forums pursued ActivityPub integration at that time. NodeBB, Flarum, and yes, Discourse, are pursuing it now.