Standing up @nodebb on #Docker with #MongoDB.

NodeBB

@MiriShuli @alter_kaker @dyamalos it certainly has come to pass! Federated forums are now a thing with #nodebb

Marc Trius

@nodebb
Yep. We have federation disabled for now but it's definitely there if we want it.

Is there a whitelisting option for federation, if we only want to federate with a few known instances?
@MiriShuli @dyamalos

NodeBB

@alter_kaker yes! Thanks to @jdp23 asking about it months ago, we do have the ability to allow/denylist instances by domain.

Jon

A big deal -- I've tried it out both ways and it works well! It takes a list of domains so you need to do a bit of editing on standard Mastodon-compatible blocklists but it's very straightforward.

@[email protected] @[email protected]

Jon

Also @[email protected] you can control which categories do and don't federate. So most of https://discussions.thenexus.today/ is private, but there's also a "public" category (with several subcategories). It's great for combining the private community-building discussions with broader more public discussions -- and I'm pretty sure you can even federate the public discussions to Bluesky via Bridgy Fed!

@[email protected]

julian

@[email protected] good point!

freamon

@[email protected] I just tried one of your public categories, but couldn't get a webfinger response:

curl -H 'accept: application/json' https://discussions.thenexus.today/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:[email protected]

returned 'Not found'

For comparison:

curl -H 'accept: application/json' https://community.nodebb.org/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:[email protected] | jq .

returns a response that lets other federated platforms find the category using the familiar group@server syntax

Jon

Thanks for letting me know, @[email protected] ... @[email protected], any idea what's going on here?

@[email protected]

tankerkiller125

@freamon @[email protected] Just checked my own forum using those commands (adjusted of course), and apparently I'm having the same issue with it. Wonder what's going on there. I have federation set to allowed for both reading and posting across most categories. (See below)

For some additional information the proxy between the internet and NodeBB is a Cloudflare Tunnel, with no special settings, nor any Cloudflare Functions or anything intercepting the /.well-known/ path.

Our installation is a NodeBB install in Docker with a Docker MongoDB.

Also when I search Federation in the admin portal I see 3 options to choose from, categories themselves, the global settings and then one that links to this url /admin/manage/category-federation which responds with a 404.

julian

@[email protected] I can't speak to @tankerkiller125's board but I'll take a look at yours.