This could be an incredible development (or at least the start of something incredible :-). Right now discourse instances are maybe the highest quality online meeting and discussion places on the internet but they are all separate islands. Some sort of federation among them and maybe with other type...
Specifically its co-creator was Jeff Atwood, who is also the writer of coding horror and recently posted a pretty good endorsement of Mastadon and other non-twitter services.
He was actually one of only a dozen or so people I followed on very early twitter, before losing interest in the bullshit on there by 2010 or so and moving to Reddit.
This is huge, they’re basically what every forum still out here use, you’ll rarely encounter anything else.
Given that Reddit became what every company and project use as a forum, I feel like this is a better alternative for them than Lemmy.
And maybe that will solve the biggest gripe I have with Discourse… The stupid way they display date and time. I once replied to a 4 year old’s post thinking it was a few days old…