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DFeed
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Don't Use Discord as a Forum
I'm not familiar with the codebase, but from my understanding it saves messages in a database [1], then periodically send out a formatted email to people who subscribed to the thread/group [2]
Anyone can post on the forum, you just have to provide an email address (you don't have to register, but you can enforce it)
[1] - https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/src/dfeed/w...
[2] - https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/src/dfeed/s...
- I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)
- Towards a new lisper space(?)
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Why Did Usenet Fail?
This website is powered by DFeed, an NNTP / mailing list web frontend / forum software, news aggregator and IRC bot. DFeed was written mostly by Vladimir Panteleev. The source code is available under the GNU Affero General Public License on GitHub: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
- Google Groups has been left to die
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Feedbase is an Atom/RSS-feed to nntp gateway
I never used it but the D forum has an nntp interface: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
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Casnode: An open-source forum software developed using BeeGo, React and MySQL
https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed is also interesting
- First release of LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board written in Rust
- Show HN: Minimal, no-JS web forum software
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[META] Like Rationalists Leaving A . . .
What I would really, really like in any forum software is an NNTP bridge. Ideally bidirectional, but at least readable via NNTP. So far, the only one I've seen is https://forum.dlang.org/ with actual code at https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed .
go-littr
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Ask HN: Anyone Building a Competitor to Reddit?
If you're interested in Go, I develop such a project and the plumbing required for it.
The code is at https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr and you can check it out at https://brutalinks.tech
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Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
For people favouring to the old reddit interface more, I created another federated alternative: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr (with an example instance at https://brutalinks.tech).
Sadly it received less publicity and mind share than lemmy, so not everything might be up to the expectations of the HN crowd.
- Lemmy and other decentralized Reddit alternatives
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is anyone currently developing an app that could be a better alternative to reddit?
The code is on github: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr An example is at: https://littr.me Status: not done.
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Littr – Link aggregator inspired by Reddit and HN using ActivityPub federation
Considering it's received HN's kiss-of-death, perhaps a pointer to the code is useful: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr
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[META] Like Rationalists Leaving A . . .
If you're interested in another option to lotide, I'm working on a very similar project to it, called brutalinks. You can check it out an example instance at https://brutalinks.tech. The code is on github and sourcehut.
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Ask HN: Who Wants to Collaborate?
I started a go project to create a link aggregator similar to HN and old reddit, but built on top of ActivityPub.
It's targeted at small to medium communities, but at the same time it can reach outward through the federation mechanism that ActivityPub provides. Outside of immediate support to intercommunicate with other instances of its own platform, it will handle interactions from the larger fediverse at large: Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, etc.
Currently this is a one man project, namely me, and I would welcome support in any area that people could help: development, design, documentation, graphics, copy, etc.
The project can be found at https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr, and if anyone is interested there is a mailing list where people can get in touch: https://lists.sr.ht/~mariusor/activitypub-go
Some details about the project can be found on its wiki: https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/brutalinks/index....
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Reddit/Forum like Fediverse app?
https://littr.me/ is another federated reddit-like project under development, a "link aggregator" as they call it. https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr
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Reddit hires its first chief financial officer as it prepares for an IPO
I see that people already recommended lemmy, but if you're looking for something closer to old reddit and hacker news I am working on https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr. An example instance is at https://littr.me
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Reddit: Online Presence Indicators
I'm building something that could help in this regard: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr
It's a distillation of the early reddit into a discussion platform that speaks activitypub. This means that the goal is not to have "one site" to rule them all, but that communities can each create their own and then interact with others if they chose to.
An demo instance is at https://littr.me
What are some alternatives?
Postmill
gotosocial - Fast, fun, small ActivityPub server.
ForumMagnum - The development repository for LessWrong2 and the EA Forum, based on Vulcan JS
aether - Aether client app with bundled front-end and P2P back-end
libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit
Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
convos - Convos :busts_in_silhouette: is the simplest way to use IRC in your browser
lemmy-ui - The official web app for lemmy.
hackernews-sauron - A fast, resilient, isomorphic hacker news clone in ~1k lines of rust.
macrome - The in-tree build system
rsyscall - Process-independent interface to Linux system calls