In other news, Discourse, the free forum platform, is now joining the Fediverse.
Yep, Discourse forums will become compatible with Mastodon!
https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794/116
Eventually I imagine there will be adaptors for all the various types of post throughout the fediverse. I wonder if the differences will become largely superficial, with every activitypub system able to read all the others. It’s just a matter of maturing the ecosystem.
Yeah that is a good point, at the very least lemmy could display a traditional thread but yeah I have no idea about discourse displaying a lemmy thread.
An Article is for when you don’t want to restrict the length of the content being federated (i.e. you want to federate entire posts). Note that Mastodon currently converts the content of Article types into a link, however platforms like Lemmy will show the full content. See further mastodon/mastodon#24079
This is really cool, I wonder if it can have integration with the “threadiverse” such as with lemmy or kbin?
Eventually I imagine there will be adaptors for all the various types of post throughout the fediverse. I wonder if the differences will become largely superficial, with every activitypub system able to read all the others. It’s just a matter of maturing the ecosystem.
Hopefully but that is a tough nut to crack especially if things weren’t designed to be that way originally.
I wonder how a strictly linear thread structure is possible to transpose into a branching structure like lemmy
We can already view mastodon threads that are linear inside Lemmy.
Yeah that is a good point, at the very least lemmy could display a traditional thread but yeah I have no idea about discourse displaying a lemmy thread.
I found this mentioned in the post: