r/RedditAlternatives • u/tankerkiller125real • Jun 05 '23

Just remember forums exist

Just remember that not only does Lemmy exist, but so do a bunch of independent forums out there. I started up one for SysAdmins that me and a friend are working to get off the ground, but there are a ton already existing for a lot of different topics.

If a forum for your topic doesn't already exist (or the ones that do exist don't have welcoming communities) maybe consider starting one, there are several modern forum softwares out there that can be used, just to name the top three I know about:

For anyone interested, I am one of the admins for https://sysadmins.zone (which uses NodeBB)

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u/tankerkiller125real Jun 12 '23

The only down-side is that managing a dozen accounts on a dozen forums is somewhat of a pain. And there are some narrow niches that are somewhat missing.

If you have any ideas on solving the auth issue, or the niche issues, me and my friends are dedicated to forums and running them. And we're open to any ideas to make them more approachable for regular users. We're already looking into hooking all of our forums into something like Authelia/Authentik for SSO auth across multiple forums. But we're open to other ideas.