ActivityPub

The upcoming possibility of browsing to remote federated categories/communities has me thinking about interesting use cases for it.

Hi @andrew_s@piefed.social/@freamon and @nutomic@lemmy.ml —I'm working (not-so-secretly) on refactoring NodeBB so that it is able to "browse" remote audiences/group actors, and that would include things like PieFed and Lemmy communities.

@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social recently made a statement that got me thinking about our place in the open social web, and the direction it's going.

I'm curious about the possibility of using a NodeBB account as my main account for accessing and interacting with the fediverse.

Very complicated all this Fediverse stuff! Far from the dream of having one account for everything, I seemed to need an account on every service to get the whole picture. I have now Nodebb, Mastodon, Lemmy, PixelFed and Peertube! I dont know if Im just not using it properly, or if seeing everything from any one of these site is even possible? @julian how far off is the prospect of using my nodebb account for all Federated chat, is that even achievable in long term?

So I was wondering if there was a way for me to have a Category follow a federated account.

Wanted to start a convo with @johnonolan@mastodon.xyz from Ghost and @angus@socialhub.activitypub.rocks from Discourse about AP resource discovery.

Hey @dansup@mastodon.social, can I poke you about getting NodeBB on FediDB?

For awhile now we've hosted https://try.nodebb.org as our demo instance for people to see a plain NodeBB instance.

The logs from this are already cleared on my server, but when I sent a private message (standard Create/Note with a single recipient who also has a Mention in the tag property) from my custom software to my account here, I received a 500 error saying something like "cc is not iterable" (though I don't know the exact phrasing). When I included cc as an empty array, it started working. Not sure whether it was missing on Create or Note, maybe it was both.

@panos brought up something interesting recently, which is that Lemmy communities don't boost everything (at least when viewed from Mastodon), but just the original post.

PieFed is very similar to Lemmy, but with a couple small differences that a couple people prefer. It seems to be retrieving the community okay, we'll see if this post goes through.

Previously discussed, it takes a while to follow a set of people who might post on the topic of your forum. Having done that, and got an interesting World feed, its a shame that isnt available to new users

@activitypub Hey, thanks for the awesome ActivityPub support!

NodeBB will be making an appearance at this year's FOSDEM!

I subscribed to activitypub@community.nodebb.org earlier, and got my first post. The activity looked like:

Looking through my logs it seems that NodeBB doesn't have any defined User Agent for it's ActivityPub requests.