I haven't done anything with my fediverse project in months, but maybe it's time to get back on the horse. I think there are a lot of improvement that could be made, and I'd like to at least try them out.
My project is a federation extension to forum software called Flarum. And I just keep thinking that a forum is the ideal model for this kind of social networking.
A forum is community-oriented rather than timeline-oriented, which I believe is both necessary to the survival of an instance and a genuine advantage over conventional social networking.
And I think the fediverse would be a lot more enjoyable to use if it had something like a forum's categories.
@squeevee Definitely sounds useful.
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@squeevee this sounds great actually
@squeevee all in all: letting modern social media usurp what we used forums for was a really big mistake.
@squeevee vibrating intensely ohhhhhh this is what I've been begging for 
Flarum is modern forum software. It looks great, it feels great, and it's fun to work with, though it's still technically in beta. The backend is in PHP, which though I don't care for the language, it makes it really cheap to host a small instance.
My extension is called Feddle and is... (shall we say) still very early in development. Probably gonna be a hot minute: there are some other extensions I'll want to get around to first, but I'd be happy for some help if anyone were interested.