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informapirata ⁂ :privacypride:<p>La cosa che trovo ancora incredibile del Fediverso...</p><p>Una delle cose che trovo incredibili è come sia possibile vedere perfettamente dalla propria piattaforma federata i messaggi provenienti da altre piattaforme federate</p><p>Qui il video in italiano di <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@_elena" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>_elena</span></a></span> <a href="https://videos.elenarossini.com/videos/watch/bc23afe4-61d5-46d1-9909-c9f7d1f283ff" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">videos.elenarossini.com/videos</span><span class="invisible">/watch/bc23afe4-61d5-46d1-9909-c9f7d1f283ff</span></a></p><p>Qui come lo vede <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Friendica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Friendica</span></a>: <a href="https://poliverso.org/display/0dceb68a-5a74802e39ad5ac6-acd45597" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">poliverso.org/display/0dceb68a</span><span class="invisible">-5a74802e39ad5ac6-acd45597</span></a></p><p>Qui come lo vede <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Lemmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lemmy</span></a>: <a href="https://feddit.it/post/19938624" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">feddit.it/post/19938624</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> (sì, Lemmy vede i canali Peertube come Comunità)</p><p>E qui come lo vede <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/NodeBB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NodeBB</span></a>: <a href="https://citiverse.it/topic/f6713053-be56-44a6-8031-08fe140f4731/scopri-il-fediverso-una-nuova-era-per-i-social-network" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">citiverse.it/topic/f6713053-be</span><span class="invisible">56-44a6-8031-08fe140f4731/scopri-il-fediverso-una-nuova-era-per-i-social-network</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://feddit.it/c/fediverso" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fediverso</span></a></span></p>
informapirata ⁂ :privacypride:<p>Scopri le discussioni più interessanti dal fediverso italiano con FediNews!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/FediNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediNews</span></a> è una pagina che riporta tutte le discussioni delle comunità di <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://poliverso.org/profile/feddit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>feddit</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@poliverso" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>poliverso</span></a></span> e <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/citiverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citiverse</span></a> </p><p>NB: ABBIAMO APPENA CAMBIATO PROVIDER: FATECI SAPERE SE AVETE PROBLEMI A RAGGIUNGERLO</p><p><a href="https://fedinews.it" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">fedinews.it</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://feddit.it/c/fediverso" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fediverso</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/fediverso" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverso</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Lemmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lemmy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/NodeBB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NodeBB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Friendica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Friendica</span></a></p>
Fediverso notizie<p>citiverse.it è "la città dei social liberi e l'alternativa ai gruppi locali Facebook!</p><p>Una piattaforma basata su <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NodeBB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NodeBB</span></a> che cerca di ricreare l'esperienza dei vecchi forum, collegandoli a social network come <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> o <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Pixelfed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pixelfed</span></a> o <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Friendica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Friendica</span></a> e blog federati come <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wordpress</span></a> e <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Writefreely" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writefreely</span></a>, ma con un focus specifico sulle comunità locali e territoriali in Italia, offrendo un'alternativa ai gruppi Facebook per l'aggregazione e la discussione.</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sei-appassionato-dei-tradizionali-forum-online-ma-sogni-macchia-aln9f/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/pulse/sei-appassi</span><span class="invisible">onato-dei-tradizionali-forum-online-ma-sogni-macchia-aln9f/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://citiverse.it/category/15/discussioni-sul-fediverso-italiano" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fediverso@citiverse.it</span></a></span></p>
just small circles 🕊<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pl.100indie.org/users/radhitya" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>radhitya</span></a></span> </p><p>Both <a href="https://social.coop/tags/NodeBB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NodeBB</span></a> and <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Discourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Discourse</span></a> offer <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> integration and have AP-themed forums / forum categories sync their federated content. Posting on a forum first has the advantage that it leaves a track record / archive (and has generally a better UI for discussions :)</p><p>Here's the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/SocialHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialHub</span></a> dev community forum:</p><p><a href="https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">socialhub.activitypub.rocks</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>And here is NodeBB's ActivityPub dedicated category:</p><p><a href="https://community.nodebb.org/category/30/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">community.nodebb.org/category/</span><span class="invisible">30/activitypub</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://community.nodebb.org/user/julian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>julian</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@evan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>evan</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@reiver" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>reiver</span></a></span></p>
D1re_W0lf ⁂<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@phillycodehound" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>phillycodehound</span></a></span> I had to stop using <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nodebb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodebb</span></a> since their push notifications don’t work on iOS / iPadOS , otherwise it would be my number one option.</p>
JBrickelt963 (φ)<p>Le silence du <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a>. </p><p>Quand le protocole <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> lui même donne une partie d'une conversation au lieu de tous les posts répondant au billet initial. </p><p>Réflexion sur comment y remédier:<br><a href="https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/quiet-fediverse-two-approaches" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/q</span><span class="invisible">uiet-fediverse-two-approaches</span></a></p><p>By <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hongminhee</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/fedidev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fedidev</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Pixelfed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pixelfed</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/conversations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conversations</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/NodeBB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NodeBB</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Discourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Discourse</span></a>, <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WordPress</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Frequency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frequency</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Mitra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mitra</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Streams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Streams</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Lemmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lemmy</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Piefed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Piefed</span></a></p>
julian<p><strong>Fun with Federation: Lemmy edition</strong></p> <p>It all started <a href="https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18824/did-4.4.1-break-federation-with-lemmy-groups" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">with a report about federation breaking between Lemmy and NodeBB</a>. I was subconsciously aware that something was going on, but had chalked it up to network issues.</p> <p>Observed behaviour showed that some remote categories would be receiving content in spurts, with long gaps in between.</p> <p>I spent the next 3-4 days looking into it, but came up empty. Whatever was happening wasn't throwing any obvious errors, and along the way, I found what I <em>thought</em> was related (it was), but I wasn't sure why: against some Lemmy servers, the "follow"/"unfollow" mechanic would simply stop working, and this would often coincide with gaps in content. In some egregious cases, the flow of content stopped completely!</p> <p>Unable to make headway, I had to <a href="https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5722" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reach out to the folks at Lemmy</a> to figure out what the issue was. NodeBB occasionally sends non-200 level responses depending on the activity. Specifically, the following scenarios:</p> <ul> <li>A remote user upvoting more than 20 posts in a single day (a spam prevention tactic) causing NodeBB to throw an error, which was caught and returned an <code>HTTP 500 Internal Server Error</code>.</li> <li>A <code>Dislike</code> activity, which is not currently handled by NodeBB. In these cases, NodeBB would send an <code>HTTP 501 Not Implemented</code></li> </ul> <p>When encountering either of these responses, Lemmy would return the activity back to the queue for later delivery and <strong>mark a delivery failure</strong>. If enough of these (~40) happened within 24 hours, Lemmy would give the instance a time-out and <em>pause delivery completely</em>.</p> <p>That was it — a quick pair of code updates later, and we started working through Lemmy's backlog of 4.1M activities.</p> <p>As of 4am this morning, <code>community.nodebb.org</code> is no longer behind <code>lemmy.world</code>.</p> <p></p> <p>Fun week. Let's not do that again LOL.</p> <p>v4.4.2 of NodeBB contains the updated logic for smoother Lemmy federation.</p> <p><a href="https://community.nodebb.org/post/104760" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">community.nodebb.org/post/1047</span><span class="invisible">60</span></a></p>
Dendrobatus Azureus<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>FediTips</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@nodebb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nodebb</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Discourse" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Discourse</span></a></span> </p><p>One thing everyone should realize when they go on to those places is that these are **not** centrally managed by a corporation which also means that these **cost money to run**</p><p>That means that you will have to fork money for it you won't get it for quote unquote free or you pay for it with your data, or your usage patterns</p><p>You will have to pay actual USD or EUR for them!</p><p><a href="https://nodebb.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">nodebb.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/groups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>groups</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/nodeBB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodeBB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/discourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discourse</span></a></p>
Tim Chambers<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@imdavidpierce/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>imdavidpierce</span></a></span> Its dramatically under-reported that the newly federated forum software <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/nodebb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodebb</span></a> went from zero to 2.7 million federated users, and jumped. tobe the 2nd biggest platform on <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> after Mastodon shortly after launch..</p><p><a href="https://fedidb.com/software?software=nodebb" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fedidb.com/software?software=n</span><span class="invisible">odebb</span></a></p>
wakest ⁂<p>Ah cool <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://community.nodebb.org/user/baris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>baris</span></a></span> fixed one of the <a href="https://social.wake.st/tags/NodeBB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NodeBB</span></a> bugs I filed in February!<br><a href="https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/13205#event-17094664390" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issue</span><span class="invisible">s/13205#event-17094664390</span></a></p>
julian<p><strong>Updates to the world page</strong></p> <p><strong>tl;dr</strong> — you can now find remote categories and see your tracked/watched categories in <code>/world</code>.</p> <p>A new alpha version of NodeBB was tagged today: v4.3.0-alpha.3. The biggest change is to the <code>/world</code> route, which up until now showed a list of topics from outside of the local NodeBB instance.</p> <p>New to this alpha release:</p> <ol> <li>A quick search widget was added, allowing you to directly search for remote categories. There is no need to navigate to to the search page to discover new categories.</li> <li>Your list of <em>tracked</em> and <em>watched</em> categories will show at the top of the page. <ul> <li>"Tracking" and "Watching" categories—both local and remote—is how content discovery happens in NodeBB. <em>Tracked</em> categories will have new content show up in the "unread" page, while <em>watched</em> categories take that a step further and <em>notify</em> you when new content is posted.</li> <li>Tracking and watching a category will tell NodeBB to subscribe to that remote community for updates</li> </ul> </li> </ol> <p>At this time we're continuing to look for stability issues with the remote category integration. We'll be working on QoL fixes as we move into the beta phase this/next week.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="https://community.nodebb.org/post/104112" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">community.nodebb.org/post/1041</span><span class="invisible">12</span></a></p>
julian<p>Hello all :smile:</p> <p>Today we're releasing NodeBB v4.2.0. Most of the changes pertain to minor updates to our existing ActivityPub integration.</p> <ul> <li>Categories can now follow regular users <ul> <li>v4 launched with the ability for NodeBB to synchronize categories with other "group" type remote accounts. While it was possible to follow regular users, their content did not properly load into the category. This has now been fixed.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Actual handling (not just pretend ✨) of content from Ghost :ghost:</li> <li>Added button to view original profile of remote users</li> <li>Better handling of content for remote chat messages (non-public notes)</li> <li>Forking and moving posts between topics now announced by the category</li> <li>Separate chat message length cutoff for remote messages</li> <li>Improved link handling on remote content</li> <li>Categories now have a handle in the description; added an additional setting for a remote-only addendum for local categories</li> </ul> <p>The "View Original" button for user profiles is located in the sidebar of any remote user profile:</p> <p></p>
Robert W. Gehl<p>Hey, fediverse, I'm curious about following NodeBB accounts from Mastodon. Has anyone successfully done so?</p><p><a href="https://aoir.social/tags/askFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>askFedi</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/NodeBB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NodeBB</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a></p>
julian<p>We received word recently that one of our long-standing clients, <a href="https://nfcring.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">NFC Ring</a>, is planning to shut down their forum toward the end of the month. While this is normally a sad time, it's worth mentioning that NFC Ring has been hosting their forum with NodeBB for over <strong>ten years</strong>! They've been with us just about as long as our self-serve hosting service has been, along with all of our ups and downs over the years.</p> <p>Their forum contained a couple custom integrations, along with the earliest known NodeBB SSO plugin, and had a custom theme at one point as well.</p> <p>These innovators envisioned the idea of paying for groceries with the tap of a ring years before that technology became ubiquitous. Super cool.</p> <p>Nevertheless, their trust in us (a dinky little company in 2013) did not go unnoticed, and we wish them the best!</p> <p></p> <p></p>
Chris Trottier<p>Okay, what the hell just caused that big uptick in <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> MAUs?</p><p>Was it John Oliver? Was it <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/nodebb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NodeBB</a>? Was there some drama happening on another platform that resulted in a migration here?</p><p>Please tell me if you have the answers.<span class="quote-inline"><br><br>RE: <a href="https://atomicpoet.org/objects/4010e7a5-6754-4ae5-9f6e-00cac5aa7a63" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://atomicpoet.org/objects/4010e7a5-6754-4ae5-9f6e-00cac5aa7a63</a></span></p>
Chris TrottierGroup actors are essential to the Fediverse. <br><br>They’re the best way to create a community and have a topical discussion. <br><br>For example, I might want to talk about PC gaming. Without group actors, I have to hope someone who follows me also likes PC gaming which, considering the demographics of people who tend to follow me, is not so likely. <br><br>I also like to write about aesthetic things. Which is also an interest of mine that isn’t generally mainstream enough for the Fediverse. <br><br>And music? People on <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> don’t want to talk about that either. <br><br>So how to solve this problem?<br><br>By tagging a group actor on <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/lemmy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lemmy</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/piefed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Piefed</a>, or <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/nodebb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NodeBB</a>. Preferably, one that has to do with the topic you want to discuss. And believe me, this is more effective than hashtags.
Chris Trottier<p>I wanted to see the current status of group actor support in <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a>.</p><p>This feature has been requested all the way back in 2016. It’s a feature request that is so old, it’s the 139th ticket. After it was made, <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.social/@Gargron" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gargron</span></a></span> stated shortly after:</p><blockquote><p>I made a decision not to implement groups. They offer little benefit over a cost of added complexity, and the bangtag syntax personally irks me too.</p></blockquote><p>A year later, he re-opened the feature request and said:</p><blockquote><p>Reopening, but not high priority.</p></blockquote><p>No further update since then. Nearly a decade after this feature had been requested, group support has not been added and it’s <em>still</em> not a high priority. </p><p>Now the intent of this post isn’t to wag my finger at Mastodon and say, “How dare they!” It’s clear that Mastodon is in a transitional state right now, and their focus is on other things – like quote posts and search. </p><p>But it is to say that the development of this feature is so completely out of Mastodon’s control that it now represents an opportunity loss for the platform. Because the truth is – whether or not Mastodon supports group actors – many Mastodon users are using it anyway even though this causes quite a few UI/UX problems along the way. Namely, the common Mastodon user cannot differentiate between a single user account and a group actor. </p><p>So now we have two groups of Mastodon users: those who want to make use of services like <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/lemmy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lemmy</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/piefed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Piefed</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/nodebb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NodeBB</a>, and those who are completely unaware of those services and ask, “Why the hell is Mastodon acting like this when I try to interact with that account?”</p><p>More to the point, group actors should be embraced because not only is this a valuable feature, but they’re also critical for community safety. No one can moderate a hashtag, but they can certainly moderate a Lemmy community.</p><p>Like I said, though, development of Mastodon is ongoing – whether Mastodon participates or not. And that specific element of the <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> continues to grow, despite the fact that the most used Fediverse service (sans Threads) regards it as “low priority”. As long as Reddit and Facebook Groups users seek out an open, federated alternative, there will be demand for group actors.</p><p>Why am I saying all this? Because this is my plea for better interoperability. It is certainly within Mastodon’s right to be picky about what features they implement. However, the Fediverse would be plainly better if Mastodon finally supported this important ActivityPub standard.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/139" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/139</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://piefed.social/c/fediversenews" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fediversenews</span></a></span></p>
Chris Trottier<p><span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@ajsadauskas" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ajsadauskas</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://lemmy.ml/c/technology" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>technology</span></a></span> Don’t know if <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/peertube" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PeerTube</a> channels are group actors, but <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/lemmy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lemmy</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/nodebb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NodeBB</a> forums are.</p><p>And if you want to know why I’m gung ho about this, take a look at this:</p><p><a href="https://piefed.social/post/489174" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://piefed.social/post/489174</a></p><p>I have big plans for this, and it’s going to be awesome!</p>
Chris TrottierA nice feature for <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://flipboard.social/@surf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>surf</span></a></span> would be support for group actors. This would allow people to more easily follow posts from <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/lemmy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lemmy</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/mbin" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mbin</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/piefed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Piefed</a>, and <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/nodebb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NodeBB</a>. <br><br>Groups are also way more deliberately topical than hashtags, which assists greatly with social discovery.
Chris Trottier<p><span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://community.nodebb.org/user/julian" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>julian</span></a></span> That’s awesome. I don’t have much familiarity with <a class="hashtag" href="https://atomicpoet.org/tag/nodebb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NodeBB</a>, but I foresee using it some day. I think the use case will be when I create a topical forum that requires sub-topics.</p>
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