This could be an incredible development (or at least the start of something incredible :-). Right now discourse instances are maybe the highest quality online meeting and discussion places on the internet but they are all separate islands. Some sort of federation among them and maybe with other type of servers (when it makes sense) would open a new window. Watching this with some excitement!
This is huge, they’re basically what every forum still out here use, you’ll rarely encounter anything else.
Given that Reddit became what every company and project use as a forum, I feel like this is a better alternative for them than Lemmy.
And maybe that will solve the biggest gripe I have with Discourse… The stupid way they display date and time. I once replied to a 4 year old’s post thinking it was a few days old…
This is huge, they’re basically what every forum still out here use, you’ll rarely encounter anything else.
Given that Reddit became what every company and project use as a forum, I feel like this is a better alternative for them than Lemmy.
And maybe that will solve the biggest gripe I have with Discourse… The stupid way they display date and time. I once replied to a 4 year old’s post thinking it was a few days old…
Doesn’t matter how old the post is. Stop talking to kids on the Internet. Why is that van door open??