So, #Fediverse: Mastodon is fine and all, and PeerTube and PixelFed have their well deserved fans as well.

But none of these are really good for community organizing.

I'm working on something, but it's taking WAY too much time, and I kind of need something now.

I find Friendica and Lemmy to be... not enough. What I want is federated forum-like threaded conversations - a federated Reddit combined with Facebook thing to get my local schools and stuff off of Facebook.

Suggestions?

@robz there's nodebb that JUST added AP support.

@BeAware Looks interesting, but their website doesn't seem to reinforce much of a commitment to open source and self hosting. I had to click through two pages to find their GitHub link buried in a paragraph.

Automattic has me *VERY* wary of this approach to "open source" and "community".

Hi @robz@toot.robzazueta.com! (Thanks @beaware@social.beaware.live for bringing this to my attention)

You're right, our website is more about our self-service hosting option, and that's because that's what pays our day-to-day bills. It's an unfortunate reality of the open-source development model.

The project itself is licensed under GPLv3 and has always been this way. Your concerns over Automattic are well-founded and they also worry me.

That said, NodeBB is free and open-source, and you are encouraged to self-host it. That has been our mantra from day one, and still remains that way today.