Forum software, allows for you to change domain names.
That is something Fediverse software, truly, should work on.
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WoltLab Burning Board is a forum software developed by developers for developers, as well as business class support forums in mind. -- Discourse was not the right choice.
WoltLab's framework is free open source, too. Granted, the forum is paid, but it would have been a better option.
https://www.woltlab.com/en/
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WoltLab®WoltLab Suite - Premium Community Forum Software - WoltLab®Create a forum for your customers, fans or colleagues in just a few steps. The modern and secure forum software for your community platform.
Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
www-xataka-com.translate.goog · Los foros de internet están desapareciendo porque ahora todo es Reddit y Discord. Y eso es preocupanteHubo un tiempo en que los foros de discusión eran nuestras redes sociales. Los usuarios visitaban aquellos que se ajustaban a cierta temática y eso les...
Internet #forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and #Discord. And that's worrying.
For years now, the conversation has moved to social media and new platforms.
But many of them are closed and not indexed in search engines.
#Reddit has become the great global discussion forum, but that has its dangers.
#facebook #discussion
www.xataka.com · Los foros de internet están desapareciendo porque ahora todo es Reddit y Discord. Y eso es preocupanteHubo un tiempo en que los foros de discusión eran nuestras redes sociales. Los usuarios visitaban aquellos que se ajustaban a cierta temática y eso les...
The upcoming possibility of browsing to remote federated categories/communities has me thinking about interesting use cases for it.
Note that Lemmy, PieFed, mBin, and other "community-centric" software already do support this, so it's nothing new, I'm actually playing catch-up.
One interesting use case centers around NodeBB's /unread route, which tracks new topics since your last visit. Since ever, and even now in v4, this is only for local categories, but if you're able to "subscribe" to a remote category, then we could enable use of this page for that content too.
Think about waking up and seeing a self-curated feed of new content from your subscribed communities! There are some interesting parallels to RSS here, too.
What other forum-centric use cases do you think would be enhanced by the ability to browse remote categories?
New types of civic spaces for civil dialogue, such as citizen assemblies, are showing promise in “bringing to light a truth.” #Civics #forums https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0311/Listen-up-wise-up-Forums-that-inspire-trust
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The Christian Science Monitor · Listen up, wise up: Forums that inspire trust
"A vast, decentralized network of personal #blogs, #forums, and independent #communities has been corralled into a handful of paved #prisonyards controlled by a few massive corporations.
The fediverse is a #jailbreak. It’s not something you can buy stock in or use to enrich yourself at the cost of our shared humanity."
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https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/114120490040988835
MastodonJA Westenberg (@Daojoan@mastodon.social)The fediverse is an ecosystem where you - not some incellionaire obsessed with eugenics - own your digital identity.
Where your social graph belongs to you, not an algorithm’s shifting fucking whims.
Where moving from one service to another doesn’t mean losing everything you’ve built and everything you’ve ever said.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied/
Banned from Forums? Here’s How to Turn the Tables (Ethically, of Course!) 
https://chat-to.dev/post?id=ZjBYSGw1QVE4bElOUThEY2l0OUNYUT09&redirect=/ #programming #forums #blogs #socialnetworks #code #developers
chat-to.devBanned from Forums? Here’s How to Turn the Tables (Ethically, of Course!) 🚀Ever felt like your controversial opinions got you unfairly booted from forums or microblogs? 🙋♂️ You’re not alone. I’ve been banned from *so many* communities, even though I always tried to play by the rules. But now? I’m done playing nice. 😈
Revenge is a dish best served *spicy*, and I’m ready to turn the heat up on those who wronged me. But here’s the twist—let’s keep it clever, creative, and (mostly) ethical. 😉
So, I’m throwing it out to you: **What’s the tastiest, most satisfying way to get back at forums that banned me?** Should I:
- Start my own forum and make it 10x better? 💥
- Kill them with kindness and become the internet’s most beloved rebel? ✌️
- Or something even more devious? (Share your wildest ideas below!)
Let’s brainstorm the ultimate comeback strategy together. Drop your thoughts below—let’s make this revenge legendary. 🔥
Forum software NodeBB joins the fediverse | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/forum-software-nodebb-joins-the-fediverse/
[As users began to shift away from centralized social media apps owned by billionaires like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and X’s Elon Musk, the ActivityPub protocol has been adopted by a wider range of software applications and services. ]
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TechCrunch · Forum software NodeBB joins the fediverse | TechCrunchBefore there was social media, there were internet forums. Millions of forum sites continue to operate, which is why it's notable that one top forum
Opensource Forum Software NodeBB Joins the Fediverse #announcements #forums #nodebb #nodejs #opensource #releases #decentralization #discussion_forums #federation #fediverse #forum
https://ostechnix.com/nodebb-joins-fediverse/
If you're hankering after old-style forums, you might want to check out @nodebb which is now Fediverse compatible.
It means you can have the old style forum atmosphere, but also the modern style connections to a wider audience (but that part is optional of course 
).
Personally, I think that federated forums are the future of the fediverse.
Because anyone can join the fediverse and there is no centralized control, that means you are exposed to all types of people and content. But forums typically have membership requirements, community rules, and moderators. Since a lot of people are looking for a safe space, the safest space would be a fediverse-enabled forum that controls who can be a member and that moderates posts within the forum.
It also creates a sense of community that social media does not create. If you are looking for like-minded people, they are most likely to hang out in forums that have a specific topic, theme, or community. That makes it easier to discover new people to follow and interact with.
Combine federated social media and federated forums, and you have a powerful combination.
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Because anyone can join the fediverse and there is no centralized control, that means you are exposed to all types of people and content. But forums typically have membership requirements, community rules, and moderators. Since a lot of people are looking for a safe space, the safest space would be a fediverse-enabled forum that controls who can be a member and that moderates posts within the forum.
It also creates a sense of community that social media does not create. If you are looking for like-minded people, they are most likely to hang out in forums that have a specific topic, theme, or community. That makes it easier to discover new people to follow and interact with.
Combine federated social media and federated forums, and you have a powerful combination.
#forums #socialmedia #fediverse
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A popular open source software for forums marks their 4.0 release with ActivityPub support, bringing their message boards to the network.
https://wedistribute.org/2025/01/nodebb-officially-joins-fediverse/
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Just published my deep dive into NodeBB 4.0.0 - and it's a game-changer!
The forum software now supports full ActivityPub federation, connecting your community to the fediverse. Plus major performance boosts and enhanced controls.
Read my full analysis here: https://www.2tonwaffle.com/nodebb-400-a-game-changing-release-with-activitypub-federation/
Today's the day! 
After nearly a full year in development, NodeBB v4.0.0 has landed, bringing federation between NodeBB instances (and a connection to the wider fediverse of social media) to forum software.
Fedi-what?
Fediverse! Here's a TechCrunch primer about it, but at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. All you need to know is that NodeBB plugs in to a wider social network so that you don't have to cultivate an audience, they're already there.
The genesis
It was back in mid-2023 when I had the initial idea of interconnecting NodeBB forums. Back then, I had far smaller ambitions... I wanted a singular NodeBB to be able to communicate with other forums running NodeBB. To do that, we'd need to build out a centralized service to act as a bridge between instances, and corresponding slim clients on individual installs to consume the relayed data. At the time, concept like decentralization were not even part of my thought process.
It was during this period when I was doing my research that I stumbled on Mastodon, and later, ActivityPub, the protocol that powers it all. Since then, it's been one wild ride getting NodeBB to speak the same language.
Funding
Soon after dipping my toes into all that Mastodon had to offer, I discovered the NLNet Foundation, and their corresponding fund — NGI Zero Core. With the promise of funding, NodeBB could fully commit to implementing the protocol in short order, instead of piece by piece over time. We sent in an application and were delighted to be approved for the August 2023 call.
Their funding was instrumental in providing the financial stability to experiment with ActivityPub and to participate in developer circles, such as the SWICG, FediForum, and much more.
The fund continues to operate, perhaps you could benefit, or donate to the cause. It has certainly made a difference to NodeBB.
Federate, or not, it's your choice
NodeBB v4 comes shipped with the capability to interact with other NodeBB forums and any other ActivityPub-speaking software, right out of the box. We opted to make this a core feature instead of a plugin, since there were many changes made to core to support even the concept of accepting content from outside itself.
To that end, any users upgrading from v3.x will automatically have federation disabled, in order to reduce surprise. Any new forums will federate automatically.
You can turn federation on and off (and adjust some other fun toggles) directly from ACP > Settings > Federation (ActivityPub).
Even after turning federation on, how you use it shapes how well connected you will be. There is no centralized authority artificially boosting your content, so the name of the game is establishing two-way follow relationships to other sites.
The ActivityPub Equalizer
We're not alone in this journey to interoperate with other decentralized services. We're not even the only forum software to attempt to do so.
- Discourse has a working plugin.
- Ghost is building out in the open.
I specifically highlight these two because they both started in the early 2010s, same as NodeBB. It's always been a bit of an informal competition between us, and we always checked in on what the others were doing (growth-wise, pricing-wise, etc.) Truth be told, I don't think the ghost team ever really noticed NodeBB, but I digress...
The funny thing about ActivityPub is that at the end of the day, the overarching goal of seamless communication breaks down any barriers between competing organizations.
NodeBB and Discourse have been vying for the exact same market share (forums, community-building, self-started or enterprise) for over 10 years, and it was only after ActivityPub came around that the dev teams even started talking to one another.
Funny how that works.
So how does it all work?
Our documentation portal has been updated with the latest information about the ActivityPub functionality in v4.
If you have any questions about how it works or how to configure some aspect of it, please don't hesitate to reach out in the corresponding v4 support thread.
If you run NodeBB, the quickest way to see this in action is to upgrade to v4, and then paste this post's URL into your search bar. It should show up automatically, and you should be able to read and reply to it, directly from your own forum. Neat!
TechCrunch · Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky and more | TechCrunchWhat is the fediverse? Here's everything you need to know about Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky and others.
I am vaguely aware of something called Lemmy, which is similar to Reddit, including the inability to delete posts. Why, I don't know. Anyway, I read that it can interact with Friendica. But I'm confused regarding finding forums, joining them, and posting to them. Usually, I go to a website, enter friendica.world, am taken to my homepage, and then authorise the connection. But this seems different. Can anyone help me? Also, I primarily use Tweesecake, not the main site, so I have no idea what the bit about widgets means.
wiki.friendi.caHow to post to Lemmy from your Friendica account - Documentation [Friendica / Wiki]
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I just read your recent blog article about tomo bbs. I would like to pull the code and poke around. It is an interesting project. Do you have a link to a public code repository?
I have done some theming for the Rocksolid Light portal, so anything connected to that is interesting to me.
Here is my demo mini theme: https://news.octade.net (username: 'guest', password 'guest123', chars in reversed order).
#tomo #BBS #Usenet #NNTP #RocksolidLight #retro #forums #OpenSource
I have done some theming for the Rocksolid Light portal, so anything connected to that is interesting to me.
Here is my demo mini theme: https://news.octade.net (username: 'guest', password 'guest123', chars in reversed order).
#tomo #BBS #Usenet #NNTP #RocksolidLight #retro #forums #OpenSource
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I see questions about chat, communication, and forum solutions often enough that I figure I should write a descriptive post of several options to keep around for recycling. Since I don't know your exact needs I will describe three options here. Two options are very modern and has a lot of features and the third is very retro and simple text-based forum software with some cool privacy and federation features.
Delta Chat is a email-based chat app. I can use chatmail servers or email servers. It is end-to-end encrypted. (https://delta.chat/en/). If your correspondents have POP/IMAP/SMTP email accounts they can use DeltaChat.
Delta Chat supports group chats and in-chat apps that you can create. It also now supports audio/video calls however they require using a link-based service.
If you want video and audio calls through your own XMPP server, or just private chat, XMPP is the way to go. Movim is a very mature server application for managing a social and chat network based on XMPP protocol. (https://movim.eu/) Movim allows you to federate with other servers similar to how Mastodon servers federate, and it has more features not available in Mastodon, including video conferencing.
Movim has chat, blogs, chat rooms, and even screen sharing support.
If you want a public readable text-based forum without video or audio calls then Rocksolid Light is an option.
Rocksolid Light is a NNTP server with a web forum front end: https://novabbs.org. You can run a private or public node, and even a private or public federated network.
Rocksolid Light has several themes included in the distribution. Here is the same server software running with a very different front end theme: https://news.octade.net (username: 'guest', password is 'guest123' reversed)
You don't have to federate your Rocksolid Light server, but it you want you can federate it. If you federate it, you can send encrypted BBS mail messages between users on different domains. You can also compose encrypted PGP/Mime messages in a newsreader and post them encrypted to a newsgroup for that purpose, so your encryption keys don't have to reside on the server.
The bonus with NNTP is that users can read and post using a dedicated newsreader client that is threaded and has filtering and very compact message threading. You can also download all new messages at once and then read them and write the replies while offline.
Movim is a very highly developed option that includes everything including the kitchen sink, so if you want to grow into audio and video conferencing and federate blogs, it is a superior option. Movim has a very modern interface compared to Rocksolid Light. The advantage of Rocksolid Light is its old-timey simplicity for text-based discussion threads.
More about Movim is described here: https://itsfoss.com/movim/.
More open source WhatsApp alternatives are described here:
https://itsfoss.com/private-whatsapp-alternatives/
#DeltaChat #E2E #Encryption #Movim #XMPP #Jabber #RocksolidLight #Servers #NNTP #Usenet #Forums #FreeSoftware #Newsgroups #NetworkNews #Retro #OldSchool
Delta Chat is a email-based chat app. I can use chatmail servers or email servers. It is end-to-end encrypted. (https://delta.chat/en/). If your correspondents have POP/IMAP/SMTP email accounts they can use DeltaChat.
Delta Chat supports group chats and in-chat apps that you can create. It also now supports audio/video calls however they require using a link-based service.
If you want video and audio calls through your own XMPP server, or just private chat, XMPP is the way to go. Movim is a very mature server application for managing a social and chat network based on XMPP protocol. (https://movim.eu/) Movim allows you to federate with other servers similar to how Mastodon servers federate, and it has more features not available in Mastodon, including video conferencing.
Movim has chat, blogs, chat rooms, and even screen sharing support.
If you want a public readable text-based forum without video or audio calls then Rocksolid Light is an option.
Rocksolid Light is a NNTP server with a web forum front end: https://novabbs.org. You can run a private or public node, and even a private or public federated network.
Rocksolid Light has several themes included in the distribution. Here is the same server software running with a very different front end theme: https://news.octade.net (username: 'guest', password is 'guest123' reversed)
You don't have to federate your Rocksolid Light server, but it you want you can federate it. If you federate it, you can send encrypted BBS mail messages between users on different domains. You can also compose encrypted PGP/Mime messages in a newsreader and post them encrypted to a newsgroup for that purpose, so your encryption keys don't have to reside on the server.
The bonus with NNTP is that users can read and post using a dedicated newsreader client that is threaded and has filtering and very compact message threading. You can also download all new messages at once and then read them and write the replies while offline.
Movim is a very highly developed option that includes everything including the kitchen sink, so if you want to grow into audio and video conferencing and federate blogs, it is a superior option. Movim has a very modern interface compared to Rocksolid Light. The advantage of Rocksolid Light is its old-timey simplicity for text-based discussion threads.
More about Movim is described here: https://itsfoss.com/movim/.
More open source WhatsApp alternatives are described here:
https://itsfoss.com/private-whatsapp-alternatives/
#DeltaChat #E2E #Encryption #Movim #XMPP #Jabber #RocksolidLight #Servers #NNTP #Usenet #Forums #FreeSoftware #Newsgroups #NetworkNews #Retro #OldSchool
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The #UK's new Online Safety Act is having a chilling effect on managers of web #forums, one of the oldest forms of #socialmedia in the general sense.
Forums of SIGs are shutting down for fear of prosecution:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/6463
Admins might find themselves having to block users from the UK to be safe.
www.ofcom.org.ukTime for tech firms to act: UK online safety regulation comes into forcePeople in the UK will be better protected from illegal harms online, as tech firms are now legally required to start taking action to tackle criminal activity on their platforms, and make them safer by design.