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julian

@[email protected] @[email protected] yes and no. I'm working on a solution for this.

NodeBB for example will automatically do this (providing the other end supports it). When posts are retrieved from NodeBB to NodeBB the entire topic is visible.

julian

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Is currently outstanding: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5354
You should be able to do this, although I may have to double check the logic. There have been reports that it is not working as expected.

julian

@[email protected] said in Is ActivityPub too complicated?:

Mainly wanted to sync remote group actors to a category for organizational purposes.

Yeah that's a great use case, and definitely what it ought to be used for. Let me look into nodebb-to-nodebb folllowing, that definitely should be working!

julian

Hi @[email protected]! (Thanks @[email protected] for bringing this to my attention)

You're right, our website is more about our self-service hosting option, and that's because that's what pays our day-to-day bills. It's an unfortunate reality of the open-source development model.

The project itself is licensed under GPLv3 and has always been this way. Your concerns over Automattic are well-founded and they also worry me.

That said, NodeBB is free and open-source, and you are encouraged to self-host it. That has been our mantra from day one, and still remains that way today.

julian

@[email protected] looks like the label was removed because GitHub introduced issue types.

julian

@[email protected] @[email protected] NodeBB sends DMs. A mention is not required, just the addressing.

Mastodon conflating addressing with notifications is annoying and is the reason mention spam exists.

julian

I opened an issue on Lemmy's repo

Allow `Group` type to subscribe to communities · Issue #5354 · LemmyNet/lemmy

Requirements Is this a feature request? For questions or discussions use https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support Did you check to see if this issue already exists? Is this only a feature request? Do not put multiple feature requests in one issu...

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The thing is, what is the actual end-result you're looking for? It sounds like you want stuff from a remote lemmy community to be sent to your NodeBB. If that's the case, you could just follow the community as a user. Search for [email protected] (for example) in the search bar, and once you follow the community, you will start seeing those posts in your /world feed.

The category synchronization options are for if you want to see a Lemmy community's posts in a category of your own. Might be that's what you want too.

But at present Lemmy doesn't support it

julian

Completely understood, that's why it's always been such a sticking point. We have some migrators available, but it's not always as easy as running a script and coming back to a NodeBB-compatible DB. There are always some thorny edge cases that crop up over and over again.

Unfortunately we're not quite there yet, but perhaps we can get part of the way by consuming an ActivityPub actor's outbox? hmm... food for thought

julian

@Astro-What would you believe that there could be a solution for that too?

There's a project out there called Nitro-Porter which aims to do that, for all sorts of forum software.

So far they can only migrate away from NodeBB, but if the right client came along we'd be happy to match funding with that client to get a migrator made so that people can migrate to. NodeBB.

julian

@[email protected] will there be a fourth speaker? It looks like the Spritely folk dropped out.

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