Lemmy and NodeBB
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I’ve been playing around with community.nodebb.org, in anticipation of 4.0’s launch, and I’ve noticed that the Lemmy groups I’ve followed don’t appear to be showing up. I can see posts from Mastodon (and whatever else) users that I’ve followed in World, but not Lemmy groups.
Is this expected or intended? Following nodeBB topics from Lemmy has worked OK, so I thought it would be bidirectional.
Though, now that I’m comparing this post on lemmy.ca to that on the mothership, I see that replies from nodebb.org users aren’t showing up on the remote instance, either. Just those from off-site users. I’m caught somewhat off guard by that, too. Is that behaviour expected?
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@[email protected] whether replies from here appear on lemmy.ca depends on whether a user from lemmy.ca follows a user here. Perhaps that isn't the case? (Hopefully you see this reply now
)Still need to debug Lemmy federation. Might be a regression.
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@julian said in NodeBB v4.0.0 Beta:
whether a user from lemmy.ca follows a user here
Hmm. That's going to be a big issue for Lemmy federation, then, because Lemmy doesn't even allow you to follow users, only groups. If that's the case, this seems like a deeper compatibility issue, and probably is probably more of a feature update than a bug fix.
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@Kichae @[email protected] That's an issue with all software federating via ActivityPub. If there isn't an existing follow relationship then the content isn't pushed to that user.
That's greatly simplifying it, of course. There's quite a bit more that actually goes into how it works.
In the case of the referenced topic, NodeBB automatically boosts replies that it receives from the category actor. When replies are made by NodeBB users, they are also addressed to everybody who has participated in the topic.
So given that, lemmy.ca should have received everything, at least since you started posting in it. In reality, there might be a connection issue between NodeBB and Lemmy, and that's what I'd want to verify first.
