There are a few Discourse based forums that I asked the admins about whether they would put the ActivityPub plugin for Discourse on their server but I didnt hear back.

A Lemmy Plugin for Discourse would be great as I the two are quite aligned. I think there might be some concerns about people from Lemmy Instances becoming members oof the forum or posting but I could see it being done on a listen only or trusted lemmy servers only basis.

Yeah i think thats where I got to. Maybe #Fedilab needs to add Lemmy support.

Haha yeah thats the one Im using now.

Given that you can add Lemmy users in Mastodon / Friendica I think you can follow them from an account on any of those. Lets see as I follow my Lemmy account on friendica.

I think there were some previous comments about them not being recognised in rich text content of Lemmy.

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Gottya. Yes I was thinking Mastodon. i guess Lemmy is by its nature public. I guess you would need to be able to address your posts to either public, users who are community members or become one, only current community members or potentially either of those two but excluding blocked users.

I feel like their are some common group communication design patterns that could be adopted that might make working through these options simpler - e.g public vs private groups, broadcast vs multicast communication, forward vs backward accessibility. But perhaps I just cant sleep and ita 330am…

I might be missing something here but cant you make you posts followers only? - Am I about to have a learning moment?