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.

[–] cheese_greater 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Where/how I can haz?

[–] Carighan 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can either rent an instance, or run your own.

[–] cheese_greater 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather not host anything, I more meant like participate in a Lemmy.world type deal?

[–] Carighan 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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).

[–] cheese_greater 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for enlightening me, I didn't really get it when I first encountered it. Like, how's that different from like ZenDesk?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] cheese_greater 2 points 10 months ago

That is very cool, I will learn more and advocate for them going forward once I better understand the standard