NodeBB v4.0.0 — Federate good times, come on!

@julian

@julian I read this whole thing wondering how NodeBB posts would look from my instance and then clicked your link at the end and realized I'd been reading one the whole time lol. Super cool, hope this takes off!

@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.

@julian@community.nodebb.org Thanks. Even something as simple as mappin topic tags to categories automatically would work I think.

@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

@julian so cool, can't wait to upgrade my nodebb forum to V4 (I'm exclusively on mobile for a few days)

@julian@community.nodebb.org said in NodeBB v4.0.0 — Federate good times, come on!:

@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

I think the best way, then, would be to have rules that map various group actor URLs to categories, and possibly also tags. Nothing automatic. Only configured. Of course, once Lemmy fixes the ability of Group actors to follow other Group actors, this will be a non-issue.

One other possible solution, which is employed by Misskey et al., is a proxy actor. It’s a special user that follows other users, and relays info within its own instance. It’s used for doing things like adding a remote user to a list without directly following them. The proxy account follows the user, and then your local instance adds the remote user to your list. But all ActivityPub interactions go through the proxy user.

If you have deployed NodeBB v4, and you updated to v4.0.1, please update now to v4.0.2 which fixes a regression that silently broke outgoing user follows.

@julian@community.nodebb.org said in NodeBB v4.0.0 — Federate good times, come on!:
Do we need need to refollow?

@projectmoon@forum.agnos.is if you browse to the account it will show as unfollowed, so you will need to refollow, yes.

@julian
Upgrading to 4.02 tonight. Let's see how it federates. Congrats and thank you for your work.

@julian I’ve been unable to get AP following to work in either direction. I mean it is sometimes possible to follow somebody and get followed by other sites, but no actual posts ever come into or out of my nodebb instance (forum.n66.pl). The only thing that works is importing posts directly by entering their URL in the search area, which is also temperamental – sometimes the same post can be imported and sometimes it can’t. I also tried following people from individual categories. It never worked except for one instance where it seems to have been stuck with a “pending” message, but I have no way of accepting or rejecting the follow request on the other side (it should be accepted automatically). Sometimes the same happens when entering followed people’s URLs in the search panel. Looking forward to fixes.

@julian It is interesting to see long form content in the Fediverse. I'm still not used to it.

Pretty cool.

@wall_e@ioc.exchange This is done now, consecutive shares are merged.

Hi from Lemmy

@julian So... I wonder if NodeBB is/can be a Fediverse instance now basically? Meaning, can registered users interact with other Fediverse instances?

I'm considering building a special interest community with NodeBB as a base. But some might want to create and/or embed media content and I'm thinking of using own PeerTube, Pixelfed instances for example for this purpose. Would a NodeBB user be able to interact with them? And can I gate areas from being public? Because of NSFW content.

@willi@social.tchncs.de yes to all, NodeBB is a fediverse instance now

@julian That's great! Any tips starting this as cheap as possible and with least amount of caring work? I've read so far you need VPS which is not only costly(?) but also backup etc would be in my hands, right? Would like to avoid that tbh.

@willi@social.tchncs.de a VPS can be had from DigitalOcean or Vultr quite economically (although I know that isn’t always the case in some countries)

You can also use our referral link for an account credit too!