Congrats on your project. An all-in-one web3 community discourse platfrom is a heavy lift!
We support the long-term vision of moving towards a Web 3 platform for the reasons given
- there should be no single point of failure
- all-in-one solution of gov talk & voting can offer better governance accessibility & user experience
So far, we’ve mainly used Commonwealth as Discourse alternative and I just checked Metaforo. In our opinion, Discourse has more to offer today for projects, readers, writers & 3rd party providers as there are so many modules and it’s easy to also gather data, for example through RSS feeds. Consequently, we see more in-depth discussions happening on Discourse whereas other projects move larger parts of the discussions back to short-term chats such as Discord and Telegram for good reasons.
Overall, we value good discourse today more than a small tech/decentralization improvement and will only vote for a switch to a Web3 product when it comes with a practical improvement as well - which we do not see yet.
I’m glad you mentioned Sybil attacks as one of the current problems. Indeed, there is a lot of noise in this forum which could be reduced with provable stake but likely also with a simple, small banner saying “No Airdrop for (low-quality) forum engagements!” - without raising the barrier of gov entrance exponentially.