So I renewed nodebb.social.
After a year, I’ve been thinking about this a LOT.
I want to give a federated forum a real shot. But not something like Lemmy or Piefed, where everything leans on upvotes and downvotes. NodeBB (npub1d43…jl5u) can disable that, and to me that’s a pretty critical feature.
What I’d like is a general NodeBB board for general topics: art, video games, music, whatever people actually want to dig into.
Politics is the tricky part.
It’s not like the Threadiverse is starving for political communities. But politics also has a nasty habit of crawling into everything and taking over the room.
And yeah, I know an apolitical stance is still a political stance.
But I’ve lived through enough GamerGate-type scenarios to see how outrage and grievances can hijack things that are supposed to give us JOY.
I’m also against memes and low-effort junk because, frankly, that stuff attracts stupidity.
Deep dives, though? Absolutely.
I want people to go long. Get into the weeds. Actually think about what they’re posting.
I may also need somebody else who finds this project interesting enough to help run it. Maybe a co-admin. Maybe a moderator.
Because I can already see how this could get overwhelming, and managing the whole thing by myself could become a pain in the ass when I’ve also got a family.
Nothing is launched yet.
But I’d love some insight.
Chris Trottier
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2026-09-24 02:47:23 UTC
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