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What is Discourse? Love the name of anything that references gives a nod to The Dialectic but I'm cautious...
An old style forum service with a modern twist, made by one of the founders of Stack Overflow
Specifically its co-creator was Jeff Atwood, who is also the writer of coding horror and recently posted a pretty good endorsement of Mastadon and other non-twitter services.
He was actually one of only a dozen or so people I followed on very early twitter, before losing interest in the bullshit on there by 2010 or so and moving to Reddit.
Where/how I can haz?
You can either rent an instance, or run your own.
I'd rather not host anything, I more meant like participate in a Lemmy.world type deal?
Ah, okay. That's not how that works, forums are usually used for specific contexts, like support from a specific company.
As an example, Guild Wars 2 for the longest time - don't know whether they still do - ran a forum that was a highly customized version of Discourse. Turtle Rock also used it for their support forum. Fairphone's forums are entirely on Discourse (and it's pretty obvious in their case as they use a quite vanilla installation).
Thank you for enlightening me, I didn't really get it when I first encountered it. Like, how's that different from like ZenDesk?
Its not proprietary software and not owned by a for profit company. Also because of the previous things, you can heavily modify it to fit the thing your forum is about.
That is very cool, I will learn more and advocate for them going forward once I better understand the standard