I was talking to my marketing guy about integrating a tags-based onboarding workflow for freshly installed forums.

The gist of it is, the forum admin adds a couple tags for the forum to globally follow, and achieves this via fedibuzz relay or tags.pub. Auto-categorization rules are automatically added and the forum starts receiving new (highly relevant!) posts through the magic of…

The hardest part of building a community is getting your users. If you don't have users, you don't have content, and if you don't have content, users won't join your forum. This chicken-and-egg game leads to many communities closing down due to lack of usage. Federation allows you to bypass this step by allowing you to "adopt" the fediverse as a source of content, so you don't have to worry about…