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Co-Founder (NodeBB) | Husband 🤷‍♂️ and Dad 🙉 to three | Rock Climber 🧗‍♂️ | Foodie 🥙 | Conductor 🎵 | Saxophonist 🎷

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  • Another Quick Test (Disabled Federated Upvotes)

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  • @anthony@forum.unfinishedprojects.net did you just remove the privilege from "fediverse"? Leave it on for "registered-users"

    Edit: oh I see what you mean. Let me take a look at this tomorrow.

  • There should be an indicator when an instance no longer federates with a community besides posts no longer loading

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  • A heartbeat activity! Or maybe a ping.

    I like it! Maybe I'll write an FEP for it, lol.

  • There should be an indicator when an instance no longer federates with a community besides posts no longer loading

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  • Thanks, I mean, how does this work in the backend?

  • There should be an indicator when an instance no longer federates with a community besides posts no longer loading

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  • How does this work anyway, and does it match with Lemmy's approach?

    I noticed crust was saying my dev instance was not federating anymore, which was neat. It was because I don't leave my dev instance online all the time 😁

  • This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.

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  • This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.

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  • > @anthony@forum.unfinishedprojects.net said in This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum: > > [Edit] does anybody know if nodeBB has a way to prevent federated upvotes from contributing to forum member specific reputation points?

    I didn't see this edit until just now.

    Ah... no, this is not available, but if it is important to you, I would recommend you open a GitHub issue. This could be something toggleable by admins.

  • Can Canada find digital sovereignty in the Fediverse? | BetaKit

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  • 'twas a good conference 😁

  • This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.

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  • It's a linear view, in case you were wondering

  • This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.

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  • Well, nice to see this post come up. Hello!

  • NodeBB forum federation questions.

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  • To add a remote community to your forum index, you'll want to go to ACP > Manage > Categories

    Under the "Add Category" dropdown, you can select the option to add a remote category.

    Then you can treat them like any other category (re-order, rename, etc.)

    The page you're on now, the category synchronization, allows a category to follow another category, and automatically cross-post its posts to that category. It also kind of does what you want, but it'll be more straightforward to add the remote community directly.

  • NodeBB forum federation questions.

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  • Oh! That looks to be a bug too.

  • NodeBB forum federation questions.

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  • Related Communities is just a header, the related communities themselves are listed below that header :)

  • NodeBB forum federation questions.

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  • > @unfinishedprojects@piefed.zip said in NodeBB forum federation questions: > > But it sounds like the federation is more so to bring traffic into the forum, rather then out. Did I understand that correctly?

    NodeBB is a two-way ActivityPub server, which means that it pushes content out to the wider fediverse, as well as allowing you to discover new content via followers and /world.

    So for your use-case, NodeBB is still a good way to push forum content into communities. You can even set up NodeBB so that your forum index doesn't contain any local categories, but is actually made up of remote categories!

    For example, look at https://activitypub.space/, under the "Related Communities" section, contain a couple of sub-categories which are actually Lemmy and Piefed communities. So you are able to just post there if you have content to share :)

  • NodeBB forum federation questions.

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  • Hello! I'll try my best to answer your questions :)

    1. I honestly don't know what to do about this. I briefly played around with CloudFlare rules to get federation working, and settled on the configuration I talk about here: https://community.nodebb.org/post/105742 I later de-activated it and just set up anubis as well (although because anubis is protected by anubis, good luck getting an LLM to help you set it up LOL)
    2. The following indicator is a little wonky, you should just ignore it until I fix it :stuck_out_tongue: as long as your piefed account shows up in the page itself (/following), you're ok.
    3. /world is a feed of content from the wider fediverse. It's like a home timeline in Mastodon where it will show you content from the people you follow or content shared by your followers.
      • You should think of categories like Lemmy/Piefed communities. Instead of setting up a category to post to specific instances, you should post your content to that specific community itself (you can go to it via the /world page, by searching for its handle)
      • You can then cross-post that remote topic back to your forum. Cross-posting only works that way right now because there is no standardized way to federate cross-posts across instances, yet.

    The easiest way to integrate your forum into the fediverse is to set up some relays and use the FediBuzz relay to listen to some hashtags. You can then set up auto-categorization rules to bring those discussions into your categories. I recognize that this sounds overly complicated, I will publish some tutorials and guides about this soon so I have a better reference for it.

    Easiest way to integrate your forum into the threadiverse is to just start posting. Post to other categories on other instances... encourage people to add your categories (I guess?) and it'll start showing up in peoples' home feeds.

    I'm not exactly sure what people do on the threadiverse when they want to start a new community... lemmy-federate maybe, but NodeBB is not compatible with it yet.

  • FediGroups -- helping you share and interact across the Fediverse!

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  • Is the threadiverse abusing Likes and Dislikes?

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  • Hmmmm, I suppose, but Facebook never had a Dislike, they added emoji reactions, technically, no?

  • Is the threadiverse abusing Likes and Dislikes?

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  • Eh that's that age-old Reddit argument, isn't it?

    Vote for visibility, not for agreement.

    But yeah, like probably 99% of users abuse Like and Dislike as "I agree" and "I don't agree".

    Also here's a picture just to screw with you:

  • To image cache or not to image cache

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  • As @ptz@dubvee.org said, just disable it. There's very little benefit and huge (financial) dowbside.

    Yeah storage is cheap, but S3 cache costs are also like the #1 thing people hosting Mastodon complain about.

    If you're privacy conscious and worry about IP leakage... then install a camo proxy. Done. That also solves the CORS issues.

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    (Serious) networking with other academics appears difficult

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  • I think there's definitely an underserved space for academics on the fediverse.

    Feed-based mechanics are not good for archival or slower (read: not always online) readers, so NodeBB actually works really well to collect that stuff and present it in less of a firehose-y format.

    For example, here's a NodeBB forum that follows the #medicine tag: https://postcall.pub/

    Here on ActivityPub.Space the discussion is all ActivityPub focused and it is really really good at keeping up to date with the latest topics.

    I'd be happy to work with you to start a general science (or more topic-focused) board if you're interested...