Obviously Apple Support Community precedes these advancements in decentralized web (and you could argue they benefit from centralization) but still, I don’t see a reason not to copy the nostr model of signed notes for public forums.

For as broken as nostr is, there is so much more comfort in being able to have a local copy of your notes and being able to rebroadcast them should the need arise, and knowing it will work as if nothing happened.

In a way, a freeloader in nostr is more “protected” than a person running their own mastodon instance, because the domain you lease is not yours, and your handle is tied to that.

Also tangentially related: flatpak closed their discourse forum and redirected users into Matrix. Maybe nobody takes knowledge preservation seriously anymore.

Also a good reminder to stop giving trillion dollar corporations free labor. Apple has absolutely pathetic documentation across everything they provide, them relying on free labor of their paid users is absolutely pathetic behavior and should be called out as such.