Discourse without company

[swetepete]

I think Discourse has an excellent format for Q and A; are there any examples of people using it for a topic rather than just for a specific company?

Like a Discourse for asking and answering literature questions or something.

Thanks very much

[merefield (Robert)]

Loads of examples, how about the Interactive Fiction community, for example: https://intfiction.org/

[Patrick_David (Pat David)]

We use it for the general concept of photography and processing with Free/Open Source Software over at https://discuss.pixls.us.

[swetepete]

Thanks.
Is there any way different discourses could be combined into one app / site, so you can browse, discover and save communities on various topics?

Basically, like Reddit but without the toxicity, or like Stack Overflow but more freedom.

Thanks

[merefield (Robert)]

This has been discussed here:

Federation support for Discourse

The mail goal of this feature is to connect all the Discourse communities like how Mastodon makes use of global and local feeds to maintain a healthy and decentralized network of Mastodon instances which allows a user from one instance to connect, follow, and discuss on topics of another instance. I think this will open up a lot of new features for Discourse. The benefit Imagine being able to just connect to your own local community and then be able to get news about other topics from other Di…

[Decorbuz]

Quemuse comes to mind: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quemuse

You can learn more about it on AlternativeTo: https://alternativeto.net/software/quemuse/about/

My fall and return on Discourse

Hello Discourse! If you don’t me, I’m the creator of a social media app and website powered by the incredible Discourse platform. I abandoned the startup when I was downright completely hopeless - both on finding success on my app as well as my life/mental health. I deleted my website, my server, and my apps off iOS and Android. I removed most mentions of me and the app on the web, too. All the excruciatingly hard work I poured in for ~12 hours a day felt wasted and forgotten. I felt like a com…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22321042
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/quemuse
https://www.quora.com/What-are-your-thoughts-on-Quemuse
https://appadvice.com/app/quemuse/1492844731

Introducing Quemuse - The Future of Q&A - IssueWire

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.appmaker.ephfdn

[Aisido]

Great and insightful piece of article.well done mate!!