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can lemmy interact well with other forums?
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this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2024
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Not that I'm aware.
But there are web UIs you can run that allow you to run a lemmy instance more like a forum, and that could of course be federated with other fediverse instances, including other forum instances.
But not existing forum systems. That's something they have to implement, not lemmy.
Behind the scenes Lemmy speaks a protocol called ActivityPub. It can't just talk to any other similar arbitrary service if it doesn't also support the protocol.
Edit: Apparently the forum systems you mention do/will indeed support ActivityPub. There would certainly be potential for interpretability with the threadiverse, then.
It's nice that everyone seems to be consolidating on one de facto standard for social media
ActivityPub unfortunately does need some work, and there's drama about properly following the protocol and not extending it with non-standard stuff that then breaks things when federating with stuff outside the given application.
I'm optimistic, but I'm also making sure not to put too much of a stake in it, as it may eventually become an inferior system when compared to some future hypothetical standard.
And other standards like diaspora and ATProto, are around, and seeing use.