SocialHub has been the most prominent place for cross-project collaboration for years.
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SocialHub has been the most prominent place for cross-project collaboration for years. This is where the FEP process was born, after all. I suspect that the need to create an account there was a major barrier to entry, but this is no longer the case as the forum supports ActivityPub.
Cross-project forums like SocialHub can then have a dedicated category for each software they know about
There is such category already: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/c/software/14
It appears to be not federated, though.
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For the size of the group [working on federating long form articles], which as you say is not large
I wonder what they meant by this. There are lots of projects that support long form content.
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SocialHub has been the most prominent place for cross-project collaboration for years. This is where the FEP process was born, after all. I suspect that the need to create an account there was a major barrier to entry, but this is no longer the case as the forum supports ActivityPub.
Cross-project forums like SocialHub can then have a dedicated category for each software they know about
There is such category already: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/c/software/14
It appears to be not federated, though.
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For the size of the group [working on federating long form articles], which as you say is not large
I wonder what they meant by this. There are lots of projects that support long form content.
silverpill@mitra.social said in Against fragmentation: unifying dev discussions with forum federation:
> I wonder what they meant by this. There are lots of projects that support long form content.I think what johnonolan@mastodon.xyz was trying to say was that given the relative size of the ActivityPub developer community, it's a little (or a lot) surprising that our developer discussions are as fractured as they are.
That's probably why I push so hard for discussions about fedi to take place on fedi.
I do get the appeal of smaller back channels, but they shouldn't be where the main business is conducted if possible...
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@julian @silverpill sorry I need a sec, busy girding my loins over here.
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@julian @silverpill @johnonolan
I think a significant part of it boils down to a failure of imagination. People who used to be active Twitter users are familiar with how you build communities on microblogging platforms and how to create clusters of like-minded people. that never seemed to really have happened here on fedi.
I'm also surprised that building a dev community on Lemmy never really seemed to have gained traction either. At this point theres better options, but still
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That's probably why I push so hard for discussions about fedi to take place on fedi.
Yeah, I am 100% on board with this.
By the way, Ghost already uses Discourse (https://forum.ghost.org/). Enabling federation there (for specific categories) could help reduce fragmentation @johnonolan
