WHOA!
I just realized that Discourse is joining the Fediverse!
This is huge news!
https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921/87
@fediversenews Just in case you don't know what Discourse is, here's the Wikipedia article on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_(software)
This is going to be *huge* for group functionality adoption in the Fediverse!
@atomicpoet @fediversenews fairly limited functionality, though not nothing
@atomicpoet @fediversenews could be huge. Discourse is one of those tools that you interact with way more than you realize. It has been abstracted and hidden, although it is the backbone of many services.
@jupiter_rowland
Didn't they say much of their spec will be based on Lemmy?
@fediversenews
@jupiter_rowland @fediversenews
How do services like #lemmy and #discourse federate with #Mastodon? For example, my #instance has a 1000 character limit. Does that mean the #server rejects any federated posts that it receives over that limit? Would it be able to work with such services?
That ruins the fun that the #fediverse introduces for me. The #mastodon apps that I use have now become like #rss readers, but I can actually interact with content.
I can follow people, #tags, and #groups, and I can easily mute and block people. I think them getting into the #fediverse is just to make themselves relevant again because they aren't doing it for real. I have seen more posts about #discourse in the last 2 days than my entire life.
But then again, maybe, just maybe, it can be a catalyst to lead people here. Because they can't do the same with #Twitter because they no longer have a #api to interact with.