@j12t@j12t.social what I loved most about this year's FOSDEM was the camaraderie shown by everybody. I told my wife, who isn't plugged into the open social web (yet!) that I was constantly networking, and while that is technically what you would call it, what it really was was a purely organic gathering of like minded individuals, who have never met in real life, who had instant rapport because of the shared values inherent to the fediverse. As the fediverse grows, we'll see this kind of phenomenon happen less and less (see "Eternal September"), but we're at the early stage of the social web where these kinds of things can happen, and when it does, it's amazing. "Networking" at conferences is usually shaking hands and exchanging business cards, and then walking away never to hear from them again.

@beaware@social.beaware.live blame alarmists from the fediverse for that opt-in.

@fxomt@lemm.ee this summary is gold.

@eeeee I believe LemmyBB was a proof-of-concept, to show that Lemmy as it existed back then was able to be represented in the front-end as a tradtional forum. But also, nutomic (who may have made LemmyBB? not sure.) is a busy person who has a day job and doesn't work on lemmy full-time

@jonny@neuromatch.social sure! NodeBB has it working now if you want to poke around on BrowserPub, just paste a topic URL into it. v4.0.0 can pull entire topics in already (assuming the remote end supports it.) When v4.1 drops you'll be able to do this via the topic URL itself.

@misskoula@libretooth.gr feel free to mention @testing-ground on the NodeBB community Also I'm posting from there, feel free to ping me if you have questions.

@marym@my-place.social please do keep asking questions! I'd love the opportunity to address this in full on another day, but you're right that it's a significant part of the fediverse that is currently lacking. It's one of those hard problems I'd love to tackle with @nodebb@fosstodon.org as well! cc @2kkyle@twit.social @feditips@social.growyourown.services