ok so, hear me out:

[celestia@tech.lgbt]

ok so, hear me out:

phpbb style forum, but with emoji reactions and custom emojis

no I don't mean the fediverse

tho it could be the fediverse

does it exist?

[meduelelateta@owo.cafe]

@celestia does discourse has custom emojis?

[celestia@tech.lgbt]

@MeDueleLaTeta ok I should add no "talk to sales" mentioned on the landing page

[celestia@tech.lgbt]

@MeDueleLaTeta let's say if this thing is free (as in freedom, needless to say) software they're doing a very poor job advertising it

[meduelelateta@owo.cafe]

@celestia first time i open the main page, i just use the software in some places...

aaaand, phpbb had custom emojis, just really anoing yo configure as an admin and awful to use

[kithop@social.kithop.ca]

@celestia Simple Machines Forum? https://www.simplemachines.org/

https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.0:Smileys_and_Message_Icons

[penny@popbob.wtf]

@celestia nodebb could be a good start

[untaggedtransmitter@aberrantwinds.bond]

@celestia
NodeBB is on fedi.

[celestia@tech.lgbt]

@MeDueleLaTeta yeah no worries these days you get a very different experience when you've known a project from a long time vs when you look it up for the first time

most people freak out when I show them what https://about.gitlab.com looks like these days, which is apparently "The most-comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform" and if it weren't for the name, the word git wouldn't even be mentioned in the whole page

[justdaveisfine@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@celestia Its not really a forum but PieFed is federated and has custom emojis and custom emoji reactions.

Its more 'Reddit style' content aggregation with communities instead of 'subreddits', if that makes any sense.

Not quite sure if that's what you're looking for though.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@celestia

NodeBB is working on ActivityPub integration
https://docs.nodebb.org/activitypub/

Discourse has an ActivityPub plugin too
https://www.discourse.org/plugins/activitypub

(Note: I know *of* these things, but I am not personally familiar with their quality, so this is not an endorsement, just a piece of information that I hope may turn out useful.)