What are the forum-like communities that are federated?

Oh discourse federates? Thats awesome

Hexbear is a Lemmy instance

Is there a federated Discourse? https://www.discourse.org/

I'd like to see that.

They had plans for it and afaik even got a NLnet grant, but life got in the way, so it is likely not going to happen soon.

there's a plugin for it

!announcements@meta.discourse.org

Is there a pretty list of federated NodeBB forums anywhere? I like to check out which ones are listed on fedidb every now and then, but it's not the most convenient list as the topic of the forum is often obscure based on its name.

(I really enjoy being able to follow and participate in communities in forums around the web - thanks for making it possible!)

I use fediverse.observer (https://nodebb.fediverse.observer/list)

Is there a list of any discourse "instances"?

Thanks for the update - it looks like I need to stop spreading misinformation. Sigh, and Loops as well - people like to generate all this excitement but actually delivering is a whole other matter:-(.

Loops is newly funded, so that round is still active. I still wouldn't get hype about it until it happens though!