A quick note about an upcoming partnership — re: best practices and fediverse onboarding

eeeee

ok waited 2mins, nothing through on my mastodon yet, how long should it take?

julian

@eeeee d'oh... you found a bug

When you mention users, they are captured, but I don't actually address the note to the mentioned users.

That's... sort of important. Let me fix that.

In the meantime, you can paste "https://community.nodebb.org/post/98444" into the search bar to find it from mathstodon. Obviously it should show up naturally without you having to do that.

eeeee

This may be way off what youre intending to do, but I thought the big win for fediverse would be to have topics that could be shared over multiple instances of nodebb. (Duplicated on 2 forums)
This is what I mean - Say in all participating nodebb instances there is a Networked posts Category.
Lets say Sudonix ( ) makes a post and thinks it could be of global interest, the owner can mark that as a 'global' topic.
Then in my nodebb instance (where I opted to have Sudonix's global content) that topic appears in my 'Networks posts' category, my users can contribute to the same thread and it shows up on both sites!

Is that technically possible? It would mean smaller instances are busier as it has global topics as well as its own. So a win-win all round

julian

@eeeee Yes, that's exactly the use case that I am aiming for here.

If this forum and Sudonix () were federated, and I make a post that is of interest to the other community, they may be able to see it show up in their /world tab if there is an existing connection (e.g. someone from Sudonix follows me here).

They can then continue the conversation from Sudonix, and the conversations would be synced up in pseudo-real-time.

Also, I am mentioning @[email protected], so you should ideally get notified of this post there, now.

eeeee

@julian Well that would be great, would be so good!

I didnt get notification yet though

eeeee

yes I see the world/all has content ...
I read this post "It's really crazy how a dozen companies own everything now. AND if any one of them is unhealthy... "

Where can I see which forum that was originally posted from, so if I was super interested in that topic I could go and register with that forum too (for example)?

julian

Right now, the easiest way is to click the timestamp, which is a link to the original post.

Eventually, I'll make this a little more user-friendly and add a new link to the post tools so you can visit the original site.

eeeee

Its fantastic. Whats the difference between world/all and world?
world doesnt have any posts in it?

eeeee

Another question, I upgraded my nodebb instance to v3.7.0
When I go to myinstance.whatever/world/all
it says

You seem to have stumbled upon a page that does not exist.

julian

@eeeee the ActivityPub integration is under heavy development and won't be ready for awhile.

When it is, we'll release v4.0.0

/world contains topics from users that you explicitly follow. You probably don't see any topics there because you don't follow any users, or the ones you do haven't posted anything yet