My friend and I are thinking about making an instance dedicated to debate and forking lemmy to add some debating features.

What features would you like and what do you think about the idea?

      • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        Depends on who you talk to. I think it counts as a forum, but not everyone agrees as it doesn’t fit the “classic” forum style of having only a comment depth of one and replying by quoting. At the same time, Lemmy doesn’t allow for nested communities (aka subforums) for complex, hierarchical organization of topics.

        • Dessalines
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          43 years ago

          We also have a sort called “New comments”, that essentially turns lemmy into a forum without the sub-categories, allowing old posts to be bumped to the top and never die ( as opposed to constantly bringing new content which is the default ).

        • @Thann@lemmy.mlOP
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          33 years ago

          The federation handles the subforums, but it’s only depth 1. That’s basically what I’m planning for this instance; there will be communities for science, tech, politics, etc but they all focus on debating.

      • dinomug
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        43 years ago

        Behind scenes Lemmy is something like a social network instead of a typical ‘static’ forum site.