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Yes I’ve tried them and they could be used but aren’t really made for a corporate website

I think the whole Fediverse isn’t made for corporate websites. I don’t want to sound too negative here. But the Fediverse is made to engage with people, have discussions and to have a level plaing field between parties. The point of corporate websites is to push info in a top-down approach and retain strict control over your image. You have the aspect of communication in common. You want to be able to communicate with your customers. But that’s probably it. Even if they ask for support, it’s often private info and directed directly at you and other people shouldn’t be able to read their contact info etc.

Furthermore lots of customers don’t want to engage and talk about software for example. They want to buy it and use it as a tool to do their job. Not have a community. But that depends on the exact use-case. There are also lots of examples with a healty and mutually beneficial communities around software products.

It really depends on your use-case. If I were in your position I’d ask myself what my customers probably want or need and do that. Often that’s a static website plus a forum or something like that. And some means to get in touch directly for support.

Yeah, I understand the logic… but what about if we break this barriers? They don’t really need a forum. Just a couple of static posts plus a microblogging would be enough. The ability of having interactions directly with the community would be a plus. I am not thinking only on solving their needs, but on proposing the fediverse as a solution to an actual problem so that we get more migrations.

The other way around would be to use something like neocities.org or silex.me or maybe even codeberg.page

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@geoma @h3ndrik we get back to other issues/problems that are discussed somewhere here around on Lemmy. Striking the balance between autonomy and management costs is always hard. That's why probably there is the need to have a service that helps users get paired with the best software given their needs.

As others are saying, Firefish/Calckey might be interesting in that sense.

(gosh, even Friendica has a relevant concept there, but it is soooo unpolished and not appropriate for business.