2w ago

NodeBB has started federating, new communities you can follow

!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

announcement post from !nodebb-development@community.nodebb.org : https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18545/nodebb-v4.0.0-federate-good-times-come-on

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).

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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.
- 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)
- Someone has to subscribe to those communities. You are probably going to be the first one.
  
  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
  
  No, someone has to be subscribed. Hence the use of https://lemmy-federate.com/ to help with that
  
  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)
  
  Thanks for the info!
  
  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?
  
  correct, that's basically what https://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.

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