Hey @[email protected] I'm currently experimenting with a NodeBB setup that has ActivityPub enabled.
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@[email protected] Yep, that makes sense. I believe that both our WordPress site and PeerTube channels are technically Group Actors, though I will have to revisit that.
I just think it would be interesting to use ActivityPub to automatically submit posts to our various categories, such as our podcast automatically posting to a Podcast category, or our news articles about the Fediverse to appear as forum submissions under the Fediverse category.
The effect of this would be that Actors could automatically have content announced to various groups in a native way, so Lemmy or PieFed or MBin users subscribed to @[email protected] would see that content as submissions that could be upvoted or interacted with.
@[email protected] Any user (of any type) can submit posts to a category. They need only mention the category.
e.g. Mention @testing-ground here, and when received by NodeBB, it should automatically be slotted in that category.
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I didn't want to go as far as allowing categories to follow individual actors, because categories are for topical discussion and individual users tend to be less focused on a single topic.
So categories can follow other
Groupactors only. That is by design.However, a category is an actor, and anybody can follow it. They just need to know the handle, which is set in the admin panel and by default is usually the same as the "slug", which is the human readable bit in the url. e.g. "General Discussion"'s slug is
general-discussion. I do have to expose this to the frontend, though. It is not immediately apparent this is so.Share your thoughts in this GitHub issue opened by @[email protected] https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/13126
@julian I just ran into this. I guessed that the 'shortname' for https://forum.wedistribute.org/category/6/the-decentered-podcast would be 'the-decentered-podcast' but trying to fetch [email protected] didn't work, because it's actually just 'decentered'. I don't think that there's a way for anybody just looking at HTML representation to know this.
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W [email protected] shared this topic
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@[email protected]
I just looked at your wedistribute.org website, and it looks great
What software / system are you using for that main page?Edit, answering my own question, having done Inspect, it seems your site is on wordpress. Looks very smart
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@julian I just ran into this. I guessed that the 'shortname' for https://forum.wedistribute.org/category/6/the-decentered-podcast would be 'the-decentered-podcast' but trying to fetch [email protected] didn't work, because it's actually just 'decentered'. I don't think that there's a way for anybody just looking at HTML representation to know this.
@freamon open to suggestions on how to expose this to the end user.
If accessing the content from fedi the handle is irrelevant, since it's part of the AP actor payload.
I'll admit I didn't really consider the use case of someone accessing the forum directly and looking for the handle to follow.
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@freamon open to suggestions on how to expose this to the end user.
If accessing the content from fedi the handle is irrelevant, since it's part of the AP actor payload.
I'll admit I didn't really consider the use case of someone accessing the forum directly and looking for the handle to follow.
@julian For a lot of people, the standard flow is to copy someone's handle, go back to their home base on Mastodon or Hubzilla or whatever, and follow or connect with them. Making the handle visible on the NodeBB UI would help people who use that flow. -
@freamon open to suggestions on how to expose this to the end user.
If accessing the content from fedi the handle is irrelevant, since it's part of the AP actor payload.
I'll admit I didn't really consider the use case of someone accessing the forum directly and looking for the handle to follow.
@julian I like how PeerTube does it. Looking at https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos, for example, there's 2 intersecting squares next to the channel name, and clicking that puts the handle into my clipboard, for pasting into the box that I can then use on my instance to fetch it.
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@julian I like how PeerTube does it. Looking at https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos, for example, there's 2 intersecting squares next to the channel name, and clicking that puts the handle into my clipboard, for pasting into the box that I can then use on my instance to fetch it.
@freamon You also have the Hubzilla example, which shows the entire handle below the user's display name.
For example, mine shows up as:
Scott M. Stolz
[email protected]
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@freamon open to suggestions on how to expose this to the end user.
If accessing the content from fedi the handle is irrelevant, since it's part of the AP actor payload.
I'll admit I didn't really consider the use case of someone accessing the forum directly and looking for the handle to follow.
@julian Another thing to consider is that showing handles is a good way to prevent spoofing or identity confusion. That way you can tell the difference between julian@community,nodebb.org and [email protected]. The fact that the domain is different alerts the user that this is not the same Julian. -
@julian Another thing to consider is that showing handles is a good way to prevent spoofing or identity confusion. That way you can tell the difference between julian@community,nodebb.org and [email protected]. The fact that the domain is different alerts the user that this is not the same Julian.This is not the same Julian. This is Julian from Hubzilla Monster. I want cookies. Nom Nom Nom.
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@julian I like how PeerTube does it. Looking at https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos, for example, there's 2 intersecting squares next to the channel name, and clicking that puts the handle into my clipboard, for pasting into the box that I can then use on my instance to fetch it.
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@freamon ah, I see. Yes we could experiment with putting the handle underneath the category name.
@[email protected], we're talking about categories here, not users.
@julian I know, but I was too lazy to start a new topic. :winking_face_with_tongue: -
@julian I know, but I was too lazy to start a new topic. :winking_face_with_tongue:Speaking of which, I keep forgetting how to create a new topic. Are the handles for that exposed anywhere on NodeBB?
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Speaking of which, I keep forgetting how to create a new topic. Are the handles for that exposed anywhere on NodeBB?
