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

THIS IS A BIG DEAL!

NodeBB v.4.0.0 was just released – which brings ActivityPub federation between NodeBB servers! It also means those servers are now connected to the wider Fediverse!

Now why is this important? Because it means old school bulletin board software (a.k.a., forums) are now federated!

@atomicpoet discourse too. I'm golng to try to talk one discourse I'm in into turning on federation. Hopefully more existing bbs can start federating because that would be awesome!

hello from Lemmy!

@frankm@radforum-duesseldorf.de said in NodeBB v4.0.0 — Federate good times, come on!:
> Is the nodebb forum down?

It was for a bit, sorry about that! Some rather big names reshared this post and our small server fell over for a bit

@julian

BlueSky and Threads is NOT the #fediverse it is the opposite of.

@julian Welcome to the network! Fediverse is the real vision of the internet!

Bulletin boards (a.k.a., “forums”) have never gone away. Actually, they’re more popular than ever.

Reddit, for example, is basically a giant bulletin board.

Facebook Groups are forums – bolted onto Facebook itself – and probably a major reason people still use Facebook.

Numerous help desk software, such as Zendesk, use bulletin boards as a major selling point of their platform.

And the reason why @nodebb@fosstodon.org federating is such a big deal is because a major request many people have regarding the #Fediverse is bulletin board capabilities. This now exists with NodeBB 4.0.0 – which was just released today.

@thomasjwebb@mastodon.social definitely do it, it’s a force multiplier in getting your content out, especially if you’ve built up an audience.

Discourse’s AP integration is currently partially two-way. New topics and posts are federated outward to the fediverse, and replies federate in. There’s currently no facility to discover new content from the fediverse and interact with it from Discourse.

From the start I’ve wanted NodeBB to be the fediverse client I use, so it supports full two-way communication with content discovery (via the dedicated /world page) from followed users.

@julian

Congratulations! That's really cool! Looking forward to see this feature added to Discourse and other BBs as well!

@julian I'm excited!! This is how I wanted to hear about nodebb!!

3 things:
- is @luceos flarum coming soon also?
- the nodebb yunohost package has something weird going on cause i cannot find where is my admin account and if i have one at all lol
- congratulations @julian !

@ex_06@puntarella.party a lot of the one-click services for NodeBB are run by third parties, so you’ll have to reach out to them for help.

I don’t usually recommend one or the other, but I do know @cloudron@social.cloudron.io is on the fediverse…

@julian
Fantastic news!
Greetings from Mastodon.

@julian this is really neat.

@atomicpoet @nodebb BBS FOREVER

@julian@community.nodebb.org Congrats, and thanks to you and NodeBB for doing the work -- and NLNet for the funding! It's really exciting to see ... and timely, too!

@julian Testing a reply! By the way, the post is nicely formatted on Mastodon!

@julian This is absolutely fantastic news!

@julian Wonderful news! Congratulations! 🥳

@ex_06 @julian although I am very excited about federation, due to my burnout and financial situation I haven't been able to pursue this feature and we dropped it from our NLnet grant. I'm hoping to dive into it again as part of a future 2.x release.