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@helpers

Hi there,
here kinda "long shot wild idea".

To a certain extent the #activityPub ( or #fediVerse ) related coder, #fediAdmin and helpers community is some how scattered, not only by federation itself. It's also sprinkled over tons of platforms, including #github, own #wiki's and forums, git instances and alike.

At the same time friendica itself is and pretends to be the interconnecting node between as many platforms as possible.

Wouldn't it be reasonable, and positive for the fediVerse as a whole, to gather around some place like forum.friendi.ca? That could be a way to offer the chance to host community helper profiles to the other projects on forum.friendi.ca, improve in general communication, interoperability and so on.
The same consideration might apply for git.friendi.ca.

Not sure how much work for example in terms of moderation this very helpers support forum profile right here implies, and if such a proposal would mean more work load for those who are in charge of any of the two subdomain projects.
Same goes for the respective server setups I guess.

It looks to me that on one hand a lot of work is wasted on maintaining all those scattered sites and on the other, this could be a step towards escaping centralized dependencies and a better support for the fediVerse as a whole.

In the case of #github and git.friendi.ca that could mean for the #codingCommunity that exists around actvityPub maybe even a step forward towards an independence from that centralized privatized site.

In my opinion friendica, it's community as well as forum.friendi.ca have a long enough trajectory in the space to imply enough trust as for being a serious and respectful offer to all.

• If you consider this could be an effort worth while to try to implement it
• If you consider that this is not a good idea
• If your not sure if this makes sense or that it means to much serious work load for a community working quite well right now as it is, or are undecided for other reasons.
  Add in any case your reasoning in an answer.