An update here. Pavilion and CDCK (Discourse.org) are discussing building an ActivityPub plugin for Discourse. After some discussion, we’ve landed on the spec below. Any comments or suggestions welcome before we finalise it. Note that Support for incoming content (e.g. posts on Mastodon etc being imported into Discourse) is intentionally excluded. It will be possible to add this in a later version. Support for following users (as opposed to categories) is also intentionally excluded. It wo...
@cypherpunks
>Any action related to the post in Mastodon does not appear in Discourse.
>Any action related to the post in Discourse does not appear in Mastodon.
What’s the point then?
IIUC, for now, it will just be that Mastodon users can follow a category on a Discord site, which means that they will see when new topics (threads) are created there (along with an excerpt of the initial post in each topic).
I’d be more interested in connecting lemmy with discourse, as it’s a more natural fit, and I’m assuming easier too since they’re partially copying lemmy’s approach.
@Hyolobrika@cypherpunks sorry if my post was confusing. what i mean is that the fediverse can have many types of activities on it, and some of those types are not relevant to display on a microblogging platform like mastodon.
@Moon@cypherpunks That makes sense I suppose. So I guess it’s just for Discourse-to-Discourse (or Lemmy) federation. Doesn’t seem from a quick skim to mention that though.
@cypherpunks
>Any action related to the post in Mastodon does not appear in Discourse.
>Any action related to the post in Discourse does not appear in Mastodon.
What’s the point then?
I’m mostly interested in discourse communities being able to communicate with one another.
IIUC, for now, it will just be that Mastodon users can follow a category on a Discord site, which means that they will see when new topics (threads) are created there (along with an excerpt of the initial post in each topic).
@cypherpunks So, no different from RSS or Atom?
basically, yeah. but mastodon can’t subscribe to rss/atom feeds, so (butterfly meme) is this… progress? 🤷
@cypherpunks yet. Apparently OStatus could import them natively or something
@cypherpunks why do you need them in Mastodon anyway? Just use a feed reader
I’d be more interested in connecting lemmy with discourse, as it’s a more natural fit, and I’m assuming easier too since they’re partially copying lemmy’s approach.
@Hyolobrika @cypherpunks fediverse isn’t solely for microblogging and forum posts aren’t that
@Moon @cypherpunks “isn’t” or “is”? Because it isn’t, but I can’t make sense of your post otherwise.
@Hyolobrika @cypherpunks sorry if my post was confusing. what i mean is that the fediverse can have many types of activities on it, and some of those types are not relevant to display on a microblogging platform like mastodon.
Forum replies, however, map just fine to microblogging platforms (as we can see with Lemmy<->Mastodon federation)
@KelsonV u can do it but should u
Lemmy already does it.
@Moon @cypherpunks That makes sense I suppose. So I guess it’s just for Discourse-to-Discourse (or Lemmy) federation. Doesn’t seem from a quick skim to mention that though.
@Hyolobrika @cypherpunks forum-to-forum seems reasonable, if it was literally only discourse-to-discourse it would feel like a waste.
@Moon @cypherpunks that’s what I meant