The SocialHub was created to support the people building federated apps and to evolve the standards and practices that are foundations of the Fediverse. For many different reasons the SocialHub has now come to a stage where we must decide on its future. Substrate Formation The Fediverse with its many fedizens and independent projects that want to interoperate relies on the ability for the people involved to find each other, discuss how to solve challenge and innovate, and to “get-things-done”. ...

The activity of the SocialHub community, like all other ‘fediverse-substrate’ bodies, has waned. From an active community to just a forum. Now a decision has to be made for the future of SocialHub. The options are stopping, be just a forum, or revitalize a vibrant community. The last option needs people willing and committed to do so. To step up for the sake of Fediverse Futures.

  • poVoq@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Any thoughts on why it has waned? Maybe it would be better to analyze that first?

    • smallcircles@lemmy.mlOPM
      1·
      2 years ago

      There’s a whole host of reasons. But right now there’s the observation that there aren’t many active members to analyze them with. This call is a first to state that no activity means no community… a rallying cry to get involved. Note that the discussion involves 2 separate parts: the SocialHub itself, and its relation to the broader fediverse (how do we want to evolve fedi?).

      • poVoq@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        Without having been involved too much in the community I would guess it is a factor of two things: a general move towards chat based discussion and that fediverse tools have matured enough that people can dogfood them instead of using an external non-federated forum.

        • smallcircles@lemmy.mlOPM
          1·
          2 years ago

          No, there are other factors. But that involves a whole lotta time to elaborate, which I don’t have atm. Fedi might be dogfooded, but it would not help with the issues of SocialHub, and fedi isn’t quite there to replace Discourse forums.

          • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
            1·
            2 years ago

            Here’s a data point:

            I brutally kill any page I encounter that has Discourse enabled, because the Discourse Javascript is horrific. Discourse causes my mobile browser to freeze, and pegs the CPU on my desktop. Any site using Discourse is utterly unusable with javascript disabled, which is accessibility-hostile.

            I’m not saying SocialHub is dying because of Discourse, but the fact that the Discourse UI is so horrible has certainly driven me off sites thay use it (the Home Assistant community forum, sadly, does too).

            • smallcircles@lemmy.mlOPM
              2·
              2 years ago

              Yea. Not specific to the JS, but more people have indicated that Discourse forms a barrier to them for participation. Evaluating different tools is an open topic, and also we are looking into bridging so discourse content federates.