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Hello! I’m excited to share that I’ve built a service that bridges Discord forum channels with the Fediverse, particularly with Lemmy communities!

In short: with the bot, you can either subscribe a Discord forum channel to an existing Fediverse community, or create a new federated community and assign a forum channel to it. Posts and comments are then synchronized between Discord and the Fediverse via ActivityPub.

Please note that the project is at a very early stage.

You can try it on your own on a dedicated Discord server I created:

https://discord.gg/8WXE9bZhbP

If you find it useful or interesting, or if you have any concerns about it, I am open to your feedback. Financial support for further development would also be very appreciated.

I have also created a dedicated community for this project, so you can write something there and the messages will be synchronized between Discord and the Fediverse:

[!discord_fediverse_bridge@bridge.nachitima.com](/c/discord_fediverse_bridge@bridge.nachitima.com)

To learn how the service works in more detail, you can read the README on the repository page:

https://github.com/denikryt/discord-fediverse-bridge

And by the way, this post was created in Discord πŸ™‚

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

So every new conversation thread becomes a new post and every response becomes a comment?

[–] nachitima@bridge.nachitima.com 2 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

Exactly! Replies are also supported πŸ™‚

[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 45 minutes ago (2 children)

Do you really think this is a good idea? Have you considered the amount of traffic will be generated and the amount of data storage this will require?

[–] nachitima@bridge.nachitima.com 1 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)

I haven’t considered any of it, because I just wanted to build it to use it on my own πŸ™‚ If someone in the world also finds it useful, then implementing some optimizations would not be a huge deal I believe. At least for personal use it is a working tool already

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 19 minutes ago

Short of pruning the data every once in a while (and losing all history) there is nothing that can be done to optimize it. It may work as a proof-of-concept or if you want to run on your own, but I really don't think it is a good idea to promote it.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

You mean storage for the bridge to maintain state or storage in terms of fediverse content?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 25 minutes ago (1 children)

The latter. Any instance that has at least one user following the bridge will have to process and store every message coming from the bridge discord room.

[–] nachitima@bridge.nachitima.com 1 points 16 minutes ago

The same works with other genuine federated platforms,doesn’t it? The amount of content in the fediverse would inevitably gradually increase over time as people become more aware of it

[–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Oh that's a very cool idea. Thanks!

[–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago