• unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
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    For a second I thought they were launching their federated lemmy/kbin instance. With different communities, like “support”, “bugs”, “news”…

    Would have been freaking awesome and a great use case for Lemmy and federarion.

    Good for them anyway.

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      At the same time, it might not fit them. Lemmy is a link aggregator, which seems like extra functionality that they don’t really need, not when existing forum software will do what they need, while also being more stable/mature.

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    This is great, I’m honestly glad they have their own forum on their own page as opposed to something like Discord.

    I know people will be disappointed it’s not on lemmy or similar, but it’s for the best to be honest. Since it’s a product, it’s much easier to have something they fully control and can have ownership over (including who and what can be posted there). It’s a great decision by them.

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      As much time passes I still find forums really easy to navigate through with how categorized everything is, and I do like activity bumping up threads. Although searching through like 100+ page long threads on like xda can be a pain. Still so much better than discord for being a source of information.

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    It’s great that they’re going back to traditional, self-hosted forums instead of corporate social media for support and discussions, but damn, I don’t miss having to manage hundreds of accounts with unique logins for each forum. I understand that they want more control over forum moderation and the Fediverse’s “anyone can post there” system makes it troublesome. It would be great if there was more widespread adoption of decentralized, “one login to access everything” systems.

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      Federated logins are a thing! The challenge is finding one that’s open and privacy-friendly. Unfortunately the widest-used ones come from entities like Google or Facebook with a marked interest in preying on user data. Mozilla used to maintain a federated system (Persona) but they discontinued it. I know Ubuntu offers one for all their services (bug trackers, forums etc.) but not sure if it’s open to third party systems. Perhaps there are others worth using.

      Alternatively, you can aggregate all your logins in one place across devices and browsers. Firefox Accounts are a very simple method of doing this (presuming you use Firefox everywhere), and you can choose to only sync logins rather than bookmarks, plugins etc. And of course there are other dedicated password managers, with or without online sync, open or closed source, self-hosted or private hosted etc.

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      Since I’m now using a password manager I’ve been having less issue with creating as many accounts as needed.
      But I do agree it’d be great to have a single sign on.

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        But then you have the same centralization issue - and it’s even worse, if the central authority has a fit for some reason about you, now you’re locked out of many completely unrelated sites.

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    Ah, a traditional forum. Makes sense.

    Since we’re talking about forums, who here is old enough to remember the IMDB message boards?

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      I’m old enough to remember dialing into different BBSs with my 14.4 Kbps modem.

      These days my teenaged son is complaining that his 12GB Fortnite update isn’t downloading fast enough and he has to wait a whole 20 minutes.

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        I too remember those bygone days of the modem handshake sound. I wish all these kids would get off my lawn.

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      It’s plex but open source and without any sort of subscription. I have been using it for a couple of years and never had a problem

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    Finally. I’m happy to see them moving from the subreddit. It wasn’t terrible, but a forum will be better I think in the long run.

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    I’m sure Jellyfin considered the Fediverse but some projects like the idea of having more control of the community discussions they participate in so having a forum makes sense. I still think a Jellyfin community on Lemmy can thrive with an official forum in place.

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      Seriously, how about they stand up a lemmy instance? That way peeps could follow their forums without having to travel to a proprietary place.

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        According to the footer they’re running MyBB so although it is more centralised, I wouldn’t call it proprietary.

        What advantages would Lemmy have over the traditional style of forum for their use case?

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      Not in this day and age where me and my grandma have our own.

      There are so many, you can’t keep up to date with your hobbies unless you are willing to follow 50 platforms with 60 different UIs and community rules.

      I prefer the aggregation of data like fediverse where we can follow topics and not platforms.