@CraigCabbage maybe I don’t know proboards, but you can’t federate it with activitypub

If you go with something that isn't lemmy/piefed/mbin, you should look into compatibility and project activity very carefully.

@CraigCabbage @mat I had a look at this - - If this is ProBoards - proboards.com/free-forum-featu… - It looks that its a closed service - hosted by that company and either free (Where the audience is is the product sold to Google Advertising) or where someone can pay to host a forum (and remove the ads) - I couldn't see any federation capabilities

Maybe it would make sense for them to have a Discourse type plugin that allows you to follow posts from the forums in ActivityPub to attract visitors but I guess they are too small to be able to devote their own resources to developing this capability.

From my perspective, If I was going to run a forum - I'd avoid this type of service since you are basically locked in and no doubt at some point it will get enshitiified. I'd either get a Lemmy server, use an lemmy server and create a community on that (so you are properly part of the Fediverse) or run a Discourse Forum (With ActivityPub plugin ) - where you at least own the domain and can move / migrate it if ever want/need to.