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?
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?
Why a lemmy fork an not a forum? Aren’t forums designed for debates?
Isn’t Lemmy a type of forum?
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.
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 ).
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.
FYI it would be possible to create a new frontend for Lemmy which looks like a traditional forum.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/client_development/custom_frontend.html
Behind scenes Lemmy is something like a social network instead of a typical ‘static’ forum site.
What do you mean by “‘static’ forum”?
The frontend behavior of most of them.
Are there any specific distinguishing features?