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Angus McLeod

@nutomic btw, if you like we can make this category follow a Lemmy actor. Then you could contribute to the async work here from Lemmy angus: Async work will happen across any federated platform followed by either (or both) of these categories Likewise for any other implementer. Send me a relevant actor for this (or @[email protected]) to follow and you can contribute here from your own platform.

[email protected]

Why should the category follow a Lemmy actor? That seems backwards, the way it works on Lemmy is that a user follows the community, fetches the post and can then send replies.

Angus McLeod

Yup, both would be necessary. The point of this category following a Lemmy actor would be for you to create new topics / threads via Lemmy. But yes, you will also need to follow from the Lemmy end of things if you wanted to contribute entirely from Lemmy. Anyway, up to you.

[email protected]

That still sounds strange, in Lemmy I can create a topic in a community with a Create activity which references the community in to. Lemmy communities cant even follow anyone.

Angus McLeod

nutomic: I can create a topic in a community with a Create activity which references the community in to So this sends the Activity to the community in to right? For a Discourse Actor to accept an activity from an Actor they need to be following that Actor.

julian

@[email protected], I suppose there's no specific need for category syncing (that's what NodeBB would call it), or community syncing (as per Lemmy parlance). It's something that @[email protected] implemented first and had some minor utility between our respective forums.

Users can follow communities/categories and other users, that'd be the basic expectation.

Angus McLeod

Just want to say that I love that we're already working async between socialhub and nodebb! Federation ftw

hellekin

Is this federating now? So we can follow the ActivityPub category in #software:nodebb @devnull! And... Done!

Julian Lam

Yes, Angus and I had to work through a couple issues on my end (he had a stricter interpretation cavage-12 and the ActivityPub spec, while I... did not ) We've achieved one-way syncing, working on the other half now.

Julian Lam

If I did things correctly, I should have a rudimentary two-way synchronization working now… I'm not sure if there's still a 5 minute delay between posting and federating... let's see.