IIRC there is an open source project for forums communities.
It's called SMF I think.
And "the thing I want" is some AI generated garbage.
I Google for the l and the I when I can't identify them.
I was the cool guy with all the chats in one place: Pidgin.
At this point Microsoft could use the .odf standard and people won't notice that and they will be using MSOffice anyways.
Only a fraction of us would use LO or OO or anything compatible.
They even use System 76 hardware.
Using CS2 and works fine.
Same goes with Voyager ( https://vger.app/ ), that was used to create this post.
Voyager is the best PWA I've ever seen.
Better solution is a simple, selfhostable ID server that communicates with AP (and others decentralized platforms).
If I need to buy a domain to get my username, I would going to self host my system directly.
Friendica has the RSS feature and it is compatible with most Activity Pub services.
Ya no les creo 🥲
Do I lin?
It is peer to peer, no need to register any number nor email and username isn't mandatory.
Just install, configure and share QR codes to add your contacts.
The privacy part of Lemmy/Mastodon is them not collecting data on what you look at to sell it.
Nor requesting your real name and ID, phone number...
That's where the love starts