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I discovered today that there’s a phpBB fork that was federated and a community is using the software. Looks like I’ve got another forum to join haha. It sucks that lemmybb isn’t being maintained anymore though… I had no clue someone managed to make edits to phpBB to make it federated, there’s only a few forum software that are federated. Anyways here’s the link to RetroLemmy.
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Oh yeah I remember seeing that federated phpBB fork years ago. It’s nice but to me it feels a bit cursed to combine something Reddit-based with classic forums.
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Lol that's fair, I kind of like the idea of merging threaded forums with Reddit-based software. I joined Lemmy a while ago, but I haven't used it in a while. I have registered on RetroLemmy, hopefully the admins will approve my registration since this is my favorite Lemmy instance since I love threaded forums.On Sep 22, 2026, Alien Hominid said:
Oh yeah I remember seeing that federated phpBB fork years ago. It’s nice but to me it feels a bit cursed to combine something Reddit-based with classic forums.