Thanks for the kinds words uriel@x.keinpfusch.net! We will definitely intend to move forward together.

I head up the threadiverse working group, which tries to standardize some new things that should hopefully bear fruit in the coming year

@julian@community.nodebb.org @nodebb@fosstodon.org

the problem is, I am a little old. After I did this experiment, which is not an experiment anymore and is now a stable community, I had a flashback.

Just ask, "how it was the internet, before of being a cesspool of hate and superficial BS? What we were doing, in this glorious days?" Well, the answer was: either Usenet, or Forums, - at the times, phpBB, or similar. Why? 'cause Twitter introduced idiotification of topics, limiting to 128 Char the messages. No way to have a decent discussion, or a deep discussion. Moderation executed by some misterious entity "the community" which maps no user, let alone any responsibility or governance methods. This is why I am looking with hope to the return of forums on the fediverse. Things like Mastodon or Pleroma, mimicking the social networks, are mimicking the problem, not the solution. On the opposite, I am waiting for the forums, like NodeBB, to be able to federate at least among themselves, like a Usenet group was able to: the admin included the group in the feed, and then it was replicated. I hope the fediverse will move in that direction, un-doing the mistake the "social network" were.