Post by @mvg@ieji.de

I am looking for a fedi-software in order to set up a a fairly small community of bikers (with special motorcycles - like Russian boxers 😁 ) Selfhosted or by a dedicated hoster (like Markus e.g.). A "Forum" like in the good old days. I think I will give it a name with "BBS" in it. 🤓

Any proposals?

The link aggregators are no option. #NodeBB is over the top. Also I do not like the unorganized look. #Mastodon or alike would kind of work but is a bit off.

My first impulse: #Friendica. I know it quite well, it can handle #groups, it has no silly char-limit, and it is feasable for people with little or no IT-background (I think).

But some time has passed since i used it. I do not know if it is still up-to-date and kicking. 🤷‍♂️

Can it handle #forums and #sub-forums too?

Is there an #app something I miss?

One of the *key-variants perhaps?

#fediverse #forum #software #motorbike #sharkey

@z428 👋

#sub #forums #forum #motorbike #groups #app #sharkey #nodebb #friendica #software #fediverse #mastodon

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Kristian

@z428@social.lol 24 min. ago

@mvg Late to the party, some short thoughts:

#Friendica might still be an option of course, I do still admire the platform very much even though I learnt that it doesn't work for me for the ever-same reasons (performance, stability). Feature-wise, everything you need might be covered quite well by it. Groups work well, threaded posts work well. And its recent versions have matured quite a bit. #Hubzilla might be an option too. Generally in both cases however, I wonder whether the "subforum" approach is possible with any of these; at best there's threads in groups. Maybe, for what you want, something like #lemmy might be worth a closer look as well.

Unsure about #bonfire , seems to be an interesting solution but apart from briefly looking at it, I haven't done much with it so far.

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