Why not set up your own lemmy instance?
Is it possible to host Lemmy on a shared hosting? If possible, would love to check it out as I always interested in federated communities.
I've never hosted myself, but why not head over there and ask!
Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025
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Re: Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025
#42IWeThey is among the best, probably the best, Web forums I know. It has one killer feature that HN sorely lacks: It shows edit history, edited posts have a link to show all previous versions. AFAICR it's open source; I think there is (or at least used to be?) a link to the code on the front page. If not, get in touch with the author, Scott A. (username “Malraux”). https://www.iwethey.org/ HTH!
Tbh, how does this work through? Their website provide almost no information at all through.
Re: Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025
#43https://codeberg.org/Postmill/Postmill
Just curious, are there a demo somewhere?
Re: Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025
#44https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters https://lobste.rs
This is quite interesting, and it feel like Hacker News too. That is cool. Work take that into consideration. Thanks.
Re: Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025
#45Re: Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025
#46IWeThey is among the best, probably the best, Web forums I know. It has one killer feature that HN sorely lacks: It shows edit history, edited posts have a link to show all previous versions. AFAICR it's open source; I think there is (or at least used to be?) a link to the code on the front page. If not, get in touch with the author, Scott A. (username “Malraux”). https://www.iwethey.org/ HTH!
Tbh, how does this work through? Their website provide almost no information at all through.
> Tbh, how does this work through?
Depends on what you mean by “this”. What, the forum itself? That should be pretty self-explanatory. IIRC you can read without being signed in, but to post, you need to register. Should be a link at least on some frontpage, or it's probably reachable from the “Log in” link on every forum page.
Or did you mean getting the source? I'm not sure. Could well be the links on the frontpage are wildly out of date; don't those SourceForge pages talk about Python or something? AFAICR, it's been written in Java for a couple of decades now... As I said, get in touch with Scott.
But of course it makes most sense to try it out first, to see if it's what you want.