• unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    For a second I thought they were launching their federated lemmy/kbin instance. With different communities, like “support”, “bugs”, “news”…

    Would have been freaking awesome and a great use case for Lemmy and federarion.

    Good for them anyway.

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      1 year ago

      At the same time, it might not fit them. Lemmy is a link aggregator, which seems like extra functionality that they don’t really need, not when existing forum software will do what they need, while also being more stable/mature.

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    1 year ago

    I’m sure Jellyfin considered the Fediverse but some projects like the idea of having more control of the community discussions they participate in so having a forum makes sense. I still think a Jellyfin community on Lemmy can thrive with an official forum in place.

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    It’s great that they’re going back to traditional, self-hosted forums instead of corporate social media for support and discussions, but damn, I don’t miss having to manage hundreds of accounts with unique logins for each forum. I understand that they want more control over forum moderation and the Fediverse’s “anyone can post there” system makes it troublesome. It would be great if there was more widespread adoption of decentralized, “one login to access everything” systems.

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    1 year ago

    Finally. I’m happy to see them moving from the subreddit. It wasn’t terrible, but a forum will be better I think in the long run.

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      1 year ago

      Seriously, how about they stand up a lemmy instance? That way peeps could follow their forums without having to travel to a proprietary place.

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        According to the footer they’re running MyBB so although it is more centralised, I wouldn’t call it proprietary.

        What advantages would Lemmy have over the traditional style of forum for their use case?