• marco@beehaw.org
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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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          Yeah it’s not the end of the world. It’s slightly disappointing that you have to create yet another account unnecessarily.

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            You can log in to their forum with Discord, Github, Google, Reddit, Stack Exchange or Twitter accounts. It would be better for them to support logging in with any OpenID provider using OpenID Connect, but they do support some of the major ones at least (except for Facebook and Apple).

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          The only real advantage I can see is they would be another mass of users on the fediverse, which is what we want I suppose. I mean I do want it to be populated, and if more people migrate, it ensures survival of their community. I don’t like how we have all scattered to the wind, but it’s their choice where to go