@projectmoon@forum.agnos.is careful with that though, not all tags are the same, some have a higher signal-to-noise ratio, but others would just be filled with garbage 😬

@projectmoon@forum.agnos.is yes, Lemmy has a local representation of this category, and sends the post here. I see that it’s addressed to the category and automatically slot it in

@projectmoon@forum.agnos.is thanks for the suggestion, that’s definitely something I’d want to consider.

Sort of a post queue for federated content that needs automatic or manual review before it is automatically slotted in a category.

@projectmoon@forum.agnos.is

1. Is currently outstanding: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5354

2. You should be able to do this, although I may have to double check the logic. There have been reports that it is not working as expected.

@arachnibot@nodebb.arachnibot.com said in Is ActivityPub too complicated?: > Mainly wanted to sync remote group actors to a category for organizational purposes.

Yeah that’s a great use case, and definitely what it ought to be used for. Let me look into nodebb-to-nodebb folllowing, that definitely should be working!

I opened an issue on Lemmy’s repo

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5354

The thing is, what is the actual end-result you’re looking for? It sounds like you want stuff from a remote lemmy community to be sent to your NodeBB. If that’s the case, you could just follow the community as a user. Search for technology@lemmy.ml (for example) in the search bar, and once you follow the community, you will start seeing those posts in your /world feed.

The category synchronization options are for if you want to see a Lemmy community’s posts in a category of your own. Might be that’s what you want too.

But at present Lemmy doesn’t support it :)

@phenomlab @cagatay long story short, it works, but this community is running NodeBB v4.1, which is slightly different. Should all work fine once v4.1 is released and everybody updates.

The logic is a little tricky to get right because there’s a set sequence of steps that needs to happen in order for the group sync to succeed.

For example, between NodeBB and Lemmy:

1. NodeBB admin tries to follow a Lemmy community
2. NodeBB marks the follow as pending
3. Lemmy records NodeBB as a follower
4. Lemmy community tried to send an Accept back
5. NodeBB marks the follow as established.

If steps 1-3 succeed but 4-5 fail, then posts might be sent to NodeBB, but NodeBB will silently drop them because they’re not addressed to anyone it thinks is following the sender.

@freamon thanks for the heads up about lemmy’s accept shenanigans, I’ll take that into account… or maybe ask Felix about it.

@arachnibot @FrankM

@arachnibot happy to take a closer look, since the category sync functionality should be working but might have broken in the interim during development.

Can you let me know the Lemmy community you’re trying to follow from your instance?

@scott@loves.tech looks like you found a bug!

@scott@loves.tech just mention the category actor in a new post and NodeBB will associate it with the category 🙂

@tankerkiller125 @andrew@pythag.net NodeBB will report the hostname in the next version.

@phenomlab@sudonix.org are you going to just reply remotely from your forum from now on 🤣

@freamon you got it all!

In addition, at least on NodeBB, when you tag someone remotely, the full handle appears (e.g. @nodebb@fosstodon.org)

You can tell local users from remote users in topics because they don’t have a status (online, away, dnd, etc.)… They just have a little :globe_with_meridians: icon next to their avatar.

@andrew@pythag.net thanks for pointing this out, let me get the user agent updated to report the hostname.

NodeBB right now only reports 4.x though. Exposing the full version could aid targeting for malicious users in the event of a security vulnerability.

cc @tankerkiller125

@kichae@lemmy.ca whether replies from here appear on lemmy.ca depends on whether a user from lemmy.ca follows a user here. Perhaps that isn’t the case? (Hopefully you see this reply now 😅)

Still need to debug Lemmy federation. Might be a regression.