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What I'm imagining is that someone running a project (like a game studio for example) creates an instance of PieFed or Lemmy or whatever, disables sign-ups, creates community(-ies) for their project(s), and lets people post there.

It would not only allow people to interact without having to create new accounts, but could also help spread awareness of their project.

So I wonder (a) is this possible (b) are the any downsides I'm not aware of.

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[โ€“] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago

I suggest looking into NodeBB, I think they are optimizing for this kind of use case.

[โ€“] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

I honestly wish more devs did this. I can't stand discord and their "kitchen sink" philosophy and the fact that content on discord isn't indexed.

[โ€“] simple@piefed.social 8 points 1 year ago

If it's going to be federated then it will be more like a subreddit than a separate forum. If it's not federated I don't see the point of using something like Lemmy for a few communities compared to something like Discourse, which is more polished and battle-tested

[โ€“] rimu@piefed.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only downside would be occasional inter-instance drama and the need to update the federation blocklist occasionally. This could be avoided by using an allowlist (instead of a blocklist) and only federating with a handful of well-run instances.

At this point if you only federated with lemmy.world and no other instances you'd be getting 90% of the benefits of federation and 10% of the problems.

Any entity, which would try to make an official instance, should it federate only with e.g. .world, will be bullied out of the Threadiverse.

A relatively open federation, with its choice of providers, is the network's main defence against enshittification. Reddit was open source too, but as a silo it was able to lock everything down and decay.

[โ€“] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get it that dealing with yet another account is annoying, but how will you cope with the bots and AI spam?

[โ€“] chromodynamic@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do other Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin instances do it?

The forum would be part of the Fediverse, so if it has such issues, then so would every Fediverse site and the knowledge could be shared.

[โ€“] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Wellโ€ฆ accounts? Although, some bots manage to slip through anyway. Being a small and unpopular platform probably helps in this case.