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  1. person looking ahead. the text below him says, "wow a cool software. let's check out the community"
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    Community
    The main place where the community gathers is our Discord server. Feel free to join there to ask questions, help out others, share cool things you created with Typst, or just to chat.

  3. hand on gear shift zoomed in, switching to reverse
  4. person looking behind with the text "nevermind".
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[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Honestly a lemmy community wouldn't be a bad format. It's basically a forum

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Normally I'd say that reddit/lemmy are poor choices for a community - but if the competitor is a live-chat like discord? Yeah. Lemmy is better.

Project leads would just need to make sure to direct users straight to a specific instance that allows instant/unmoderated sign-ups, or else that element of friction will occur -- and certainly not start the whole "there's many instances, pick the one that's right for you!" spiel, or users will give up immediately. I thought similarly about matrix - on-boarding users to a matrix community would be helped by explicitly writing a guide for them to do so, but then we're back to step 1, where making a discord channel is quicker than writing instructions.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Lemmy seems better for asking questions/problem solving, but it doesn't seem as good for growing a community or more casual chatting about a project because discord has that social aspect and demands much less effort for each 'post'.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

There have been projects that skin Lemmy to be like a forum, based on phpBB code if I recall. Don't think the projects are active though.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago

Technically it is ActivityPub actor