The free open source forum software NodeBB is now part of the Fediverse.
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The free open source forum software NodeBB is now part of the Fediverse. You can now follow and interact with members of NodeBB-powered forums from other Fediverse servers.
For example, their co-founder's account on NodeBB is @julian and you can interact with them from Mastodon etc.
You can follow the latest news about NodeBB at:
️ @nodebb Their official website is at:
If you want technical details see the documentation at:
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Fedi.Tipsreplied to Stephan Löttgen last edited by [email protected]
Your Mastodon account only works on your Mastodon server.
But you can interact with people from other types of servers, for example you can click on @julian and reply to their posts or follow their account. They are on NodeBB.
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Can this kind of community form be operated like a private Facebook group? Obviously any messages in a hypothetical "closed" forum would not federate, while stuff posted on a public forum would... but is there such a thing as a closed forum?
Still looking for a replacement for Facebook groups...
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@marym @FediTips @julian @nodebb If it is, that is really good news. The last discussion I saw about groups had only two kinds of answers. Start your own server and don't federate, and federation is by definition open and there shouldn't be discussions happening behind closed doors. The former is an unrealistic technical barrier to most people, the latter ignores the problem with unqualified Dunning-Kruger meddling and the need for safe spaces. Both are exceptionally tone deaf.
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@2KKyle @marym @FediTips @julian @nodebb
Yeah, I'm just going to keep asking questions, and maybe eventually I will figure something out. There are ALMOST the kind of groups I want... Public groups can be implemented on Mastodon, though it's a little tricky for normies, I think. Private collections of your own contacts can (somehow) be implemented on Friendica - but I still haven't really figured out how. And I consider myself more tech savvy than average. Friendica seems really hard to use.
A private, asynchronous group with people inviting others, where not everyone knows each to start with? I still am not seeing that anywhere in the Fediverse.
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@marym @marym @FediTips @julian @nodebb @2KKyle @marym
Would NodeBB, which now supports ActivityPub, be something that supports asynchronous groups? I'm only mentioning it because it's how someone described NodeBB to me today when I asked how it compared to Lemmy/Piefed/MBIN. Beyond this, I don't know much about it.
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@[email protected] please do keep asking questions!
I'd love the opportunity to address this in full on another day, but you're right that it's a significant part of the fediverse that is currently lacking.
It's one of those hard problems I'd love to tackle with @[email protected] as well!
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