NodeBB has started federating, new communities you can follow
from Die4Ever@programming.dev to newcommunities@lemmy.world on 20 Jan 21:25
https://programming.dev/post/24324001

!general-discussion@community.nodebb.org

!nodebb-development@community.nodebb.org

!activitypub@community.nodebb.org

some forums that use NodeBB, will be interesting to see if they enable federation

nodebb.org/showcase/

announcement post from !nodebb-development@community.nodebb.org : …nodebb.org/…/nodebb-v4.0.0-federate-good-times-c…

Comment below with any other NodeBB communities as people update their servers and enable federation

You can turn federation on and off (and adjust some other fun toggles) directly from ACP > Settings > Federation (ActivityPub).

#newcommunities

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Blaze@feddit.org on 20 Jan 21:27 next collapse

Nice, thanks!

Can they be added to lemmy-federate.com ?

Die4Ever@programming.dev on 20 Jan 22:18 collapse

I think that requires the instance owner to approve, and the approval process probably won’t work with NodeBB?

Blaze@feddit.org on 20 Jan 22:50 collapse

Isn’t the other way around: instances registered on the tool automatically subscribe to communities added?

Die4Ever@programming.dev on 20 Jan 22:58 collapse

both sides need approval from the instance owner

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al on 20 Jan 21:35 next collapse

Sync for Lemmy and Jerboa hate hyphens in community names 😭

cm0002@lemmy.world on 20 Jan 22:16 next collapse

Ditto for Boost apparently

MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net on 21 Jan 00:33 collapse

Seems to work in Voyager.

[deleted] on 21 Jan 07:22 collapse

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Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Jan 22:07 next collapse

None of that is showing up on my instance, is this just federation being slow on one end or the other? The announcement post you linked isn’t loading for me, either.

Blaze@feddit.org on 20 Jan 22:08 next collapse

Someone has to subscribe to those communities. You are probably going to be the first one.

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Jan 22:12 next collapse

Oooh, is it subscribing that starts up federation of community content and not searching for it? For some reason I was under the impression that just putting the !communityname@instance into the search bar did it

Blaze@feddit.org on 20 Jan 22:14 next collapse

No, someone has to be subscribed. Hence the use of lemmy-federate.com to help with that

Die4Ever@programming.dev on 20 Jan 22:16 collapse

the search should work, but give it time

I know it says no results found when the local search finishes even though it’s still doing the remote search

also some apps may not yet support hyphens in community names, but at least it works for me in the web browser

if the direct link to the announcement wasn’t loading for you, then their server was probably having issues (it was earlier too)

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Jan 22:22 collapse

Thanks for the info!

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 20 Jan 22:41 collapse

That’s stupid.

If Lemmy.World made subscribebot@lemmy.world, whose sole purpose was to subscribe to every single federated community, would that mean Lemmy.World users wouldn’t have this issue?

Die4Ever@programming.dev on 20 Jan 22:43 collapse

correct, that’s basically what lemmy-federate.com does, it just subscribes for each instance

Communities in Lemmy/Mbin are not federated by default. So when you create a new community, it will only be available to your instance. At least 1 person from all other instances must follow it in order to make it available. This tool does that. It follows your community from all remote instances until at least 1 other person follows it.

andrew_s@piefed.social on 20 Jan 22:52 collapse

If you fetch a community that your instance hasn't previously heard of, you can typically query the community's 'outbox' collection to get recent posts. So in Lemmy, you get 50 old posts, and then - once someone has subscribed - new posts start coming in.

Different platforms have different formats for their outboxes - Lemmy uses Announce/Create/Page, a.gup.pe and PeerTube use Announce, with a URL that leads to a Note or Video, wordpress uses Create/Article. Because Lemmy already understands its own outbox format, it's able to get old posts from other Lemmy instances. It doesn't get old stuff for a.gup.pe, PeerTube, or wordpress though.

So you might be wondering what outbox format nodebb uses - to which the answer is none. The outbox leads nowhere useful (they're in good company with MBIN on this). Anyway - this is why fetching a nodebb community won't come with any of its existing posts (but - as mentioned - new stuff will come in for subscribers)

Sergio@slrpnk.net on 20 Jan 22:44 next collapse

It would be hilarious if there was an existing “196” NodeBB community. And it federated.

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml on 21 Jan 01:14 collapse

I’m getting a 404 in Sync