@nutomic@lemmy.ml Thanks for this! We’ve been considering trying out Ibis, maybe this would be a good chance to review it and report back to you on what the platform’s current affordances are, and what we feel like might be missing. Obviously, you don’t necessarily want to replicate MediaWiki, but it might be good to see what ideas are worth bringing over.
@altcode@community.nodebb.org Hmm, weird. Can see your reply and the screenshot, not totally sure why my response came up as empty on your end? :thinking_face:
Yep, looks great!
@squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de We can read you loud and clear!
@simon Thanks for joining, Simon! We’re still kind of getting a feel for what this should be, and what categories to feature. We’re also playing around with federation and category sync with a few different places, so hopefully this can act as a pretty robust hub for us!
@scott@loves.tech Thanks, Scott! We’ve been thinking about doing a Threadiverse platform for a long time, but the recent introduction of NodeBB kind of feels perfect for what we’re looking for. It can talk to Lemmy, PieFed, and Hubzilla, but also retains the look and feel of a message board. 😁
@scott@loves.tech Yeah, 100% agreed on all counts. It should be a cross-organizational effort, data-sharing should be encouraged, and there ought to be a decent set of guidelines for how written pages look.
One thought that’s been in the back of my mind: while there’s some old stalwart platforms like MediaWiki that we could get running, would this effort benefit from a federated wiki platform? One ActivityPub-based effort that I know of is Ibis, which is by the Lemmy dev @nutomic@lemmy.ml.
This might also be a good use of the Fedizen.net domain that I currently own, and have been sitting on.
@eeeee Honestly, it only took me a few hours to configure. The biggest points of confusion were the initial setup for MongoDB, as that’s a bit unfamiliar to me. Overall, it wasn’t too difficult to set up.
> And which mail service do you use to send out the ‘confirmation emails’?
I actually took the cheap option and just used SendGrid, with a manual configuration for the SMTP integration. It took a little bit of fiddling around to get everything working, but it was important to me to get this right, before launching the community.
@andrew@pythag.net said in Why Are We Starting a Community Forum?: > It’s not especially important, but a link to PieFed that’s consistent with the links to Lemmy and MBIN is https://join.piefed.social/
Ooh, good point, I’ll fix that!
Hey, great question!
Nostr is another open communication protocol, like ActivityPub. It’s short for: “Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted Over Relays”. The key differences with Nostr are two things:
Instead of an inbox/outbox model, Nostr relies on relays and clients. Basically, you register a keypair representing your online identity, and you use a secret key (known as NSec) to log in through a client. The client then loads interactions directed at you through a relay, and your interactions then get posted out from the client back to the relay.
Pretty much all interactions with the Nostr network are done through rich client applications. You don’t really log into an instance, in the traditional sense, you just have a full-featured app do all of the interaction part for you. It’s common to have a private wallet as a browser extension for handling app authentication, as opposed to OAuth built in to a server instance.
It’s kind of hard to measure the overall userbase of the Nostr network. I would estimate that it’s much smaller than Bluesky or the Fediverse, but it has an active developer ecosystem and user community.
Wow, wild! It’s been incredible seeing how quickly NodeBB has been getting updates. You’re hard to keep up with!