Hey

I'm a developer that has a few accessibility clients at the moment.

Specifically, Spinal NZ are looking for a knowledge sharing/support platform that will fix some of Facebook Groups's problems, including:

  • Unable to suitably categorise Posts (sub-group/topic type/region)
  • Difficulty searching/filtering
  • Posts ‘drop off’ the bottom (due to inability to filter)
  • Continual hacking risk
  • Platform controlled by off-shore corporate interests

I have an intuition that federated platforms such as lemmy may align to the needs of accessibly communities, given its openness, self governance etc.

I would host an instance for the community so that they can self-moderate and connect up to other instances that might align with their needs.

I was wondering if anyone would recommend using lemmy for this purpose, if there are other federated systems that might carry out the same goal?