Yes, forum platforms too (incl #nodebb of course).
I do get the (very vague) impression discourse is focusing on integrating well with masto to a good extent and so might not integrate too well with the other Reddit/forum platforms. If true, that might be a good enough reason to start with another base. OTOH, it’s a familiar platform to many devs so adapting it for stackoverflow like use could go well right?
@julian
Interesting. Does #NodeBB implement #ActivityPub natively as its core mechanism or is there a plugin to allow a NodeBB server to be federated? @BeAware
Quote Posts, being able to limit them, and possibly being able to limit replies, is coming to Fediverse soon enough.
I am a bit worried about these features for all the same reasons that others are, as well.
However, I have another worry that I haven't seen talked about yet, because it's a limited experience so far.
Threads added the ability to limit Quote Posts yesterday and I've already played around with it to see how it works.
I'm worried about Mastodon using the same kind of way to limit Quote Posts as Threads.
Currently, the way Threads does Quote Posts, is that whenever you post a link to a post, it automatically turns into a quote post. Therefore, when you limit them, nobody can even link your post on the site at all.
That's currently how Threads Quote Post limiting works and that really sucks if that severe limitation would come to the wider Fediverse.
My worries might be unfounded. This might be not at all how Mastodon will be doing it and everything will be fine.
Ryan made a pretty good point around the 16 minute mark about how Threads wasn't told to make their federation "opt-in" from the Fediverse side and that people feel differently about bridges for some reason.
Even though, they're the same thing, in most ways. 2/?
So, at the 29 minute mark, Ryan talks about how Mastodon's search discoverability feature is currently opt-in and there's only 5-6% of people currently opting-in. That's a wild statistic!😬 3/?
This video is SO good! Anyone who is interested in Fediverse nuances and the issues we've been debating for months now, should definitely watch this video! 4/?
I haven't done that in A LONG TIME. However, there's been LOTS happening and I'm very excited for the future of the platform, right now.
I am obviously still a little cynical when it comes to corporations and their intentions with Fedi, though.
If I have time, (and if I feel good enough. Anxiety is a bitch) I'll do a writing session and detail my thoughts, reasonings, and experiences with this social movement so far.
I'll also be detailing the nuances of each cross-platform integration I have firsthand experience with.
Let me know if this is a type of blog post would be interesting or intriguing to you and it might help me with motivation to pull it off. I don't want to "yell into the void". Especially with something I have so much passion for, and will take some time to complete.
I can’t get over how cool it is to view my posts from any server. I’m definitely going to use activitypub for my social media I’m planning on making. I was going to use @Discourse , but considering it’s like #GitLab where you are only able to self host and each instance of discourse can’t interconnect makes me kinda sad. But activitypub seems like the only way I feel happy in both ways.
Post from @rabble on why he's chosen to use #Nostr and not #ActivityPub and the #Fediverse. He makes some compelling points. Personally I am not too worried about the server admin parts of his argument (I have enough control, even if I don't control the server), but I agree that this isn't ideal:
For those who prefer a bulletin board interface for the #Fediverse, this is pretty darn attractive. Anyone who was active with Internet forums back in the '90s and '00s would love this quite a lot.
As many of us know, the problem with old Internet forums is that, while they provided a cozy community for folks who liked to follow specific topics, they often died because the likes of Facebook simply had a larger network effect.
But with NodeBB and ActivityPub, Internet forums may soon find that they have a network effect of hundreds of millions of people.
If you ever used Internet forums but have since stopped, would NodeBB's foray into the Fediverse have you increase your participation with them again?
I have so many follow relationships with so many talented people here!
It's so great to see all of you and your interesting projects and creations across such a variety of hobbies and professions.
It's only going to get better with Threads federation under way! Future of Fedi will sure be interesting and I'm glad to be a part of something that could fundamentally change the way "Internet" is done as a whole.
The future awaits. After years of gaining steam, Fedi has arrived.
As expected, when an instance attempts to respond to a Note with a larger audience than the note replied to, Mastodon will silently drop it from processing.
I don't actually know if this is codified anywhere in #ActivityPub or #ActivityStreams spec, but looking into it now. 💪
Edit: Might be it actually is processed, but doesn't link up to the more-restrictive parent. Also good I think. Not quite sure how I'd handle this in #nodebb ...
@trwnh I was just doing a couple back-and-forth toots between my two instances (one #nodebb, the other Mastodon), and the public response to the private mention didn't show up in my Mastodon feed so perhaps it was just a hiccup.
It definitely would be easier if it all linked up as expected but didn't show what you're not supposed to see 🤷
In my very limited, non-dev view of ActivityPub, it seems as though there's nothing that devs can do that would be a "violation of the spec".
With the way that a lot of implementations only use certain parts of the spec, fragmenting the Fediverse into seperate spaces in which only uses of the same software are compatible with each other; it leaves a lot to be desired...
What can devs do "wrong" that would make them seem malicious in the space?
I would have thought complete interoperability would be a major feature, yet I have been infinitely disappointed with current implementations and their almost complete incompatibility with other implementations.
Lemmy and Mastodon being one of the most notable examples. You can post to Lemmy from Mastodon and it seems to work pretty well for the most part. Yet posts from Lemmy on Mastodon, outside of strictly plain text comments, are literally just a link. From what I understand this is due to Mastodon not accepting "article" content types, which is what Lemmy uses for "posts".
@BeAware complete interoperability would indeed be a wonderful feature, but the simple adage holds true: the first 90% takes 10% of the time, the remaining 10% takes 90% of the time, and is also not very fun to do 😁
Also, what does "complete interoperability" mean when different software do different things? Anything that is a superset of #ActivityPub is easy (e.g. upvotes/downvotes are a superset of AP Likes), but its very hard the other way (#nodebb doesn't do post visibility like Mastodon)
Is there a way to follow #Lemmy communities through Mastodon in a way where you would only get new posts into your timeline? So filtering out the comments?
@BeAware@JMkinen yeah unfortunately the reason why I stopped following startrek.website, Mastodon is just not the ideal viewer for this sort of content.
Were it batched up into discrete topics like a forum would... now we're cookin' 😈
That has me thinking, I should follow a couple kbin communities and see how they look in #nodebb
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ActivityPub is so neat! With all the new implementations coming out, it's slowly becoming my "one stop shop" internet aggregator.
For example, all from within my Mastodon instance I can:
Follow communities on Lemmy and Kbin, allowing me to interact with every post/comment and make my own post or comment to any community.
Follow my favorite podcasts and get new episodes directly in my feed via PodcastIndex.org
Follow WordPress blogs that have the ActivityPub plugin activated.
SOON enough I'll be able to:
Interact/follow accounts on Threads (and hopefully someday Instagram)
Follow/interact with comments/posts/communities from NodeBB forums.
This protocol is changing the internet and how I use it every day.
PS. If you want more information on how to do any of these things, just let me know and I will explain. Though please limit to asking about one or two at a time, as some are quite intricate in their implementations.
Edit: Nitter has been shut down 2 days after I posted this. Oh well. Fuck Xhitter
Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative ( ioc.exchange )
Codeberg was asking about this. The linked toot by a commenter points to :...