New Communities @lemmy.world Die4Ever @programming.dev 3w ago

NodeBB has started federating, new communities you can follow

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

announcement post from [email protected] : 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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Sync for Lemmy and Jerboa hate hyphens in community names 😭
- Ditto for Boost apparently
  
  Seems to work in Voyager.
It would be hilarious if there was an existing "196" NodeBB community. And it federated.
Nice, thanks!

Can they be added to https://lemmy-federate.com/ ?
- I think that requires the instance owner to approve, and the approval process probably won't work with NodeBB?
  
  Isn't the other way around: instances registered on the tool automatically subscribe to communities added?
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
  
  That's stupid.
  
  If Lemmy.World made [email protected], whose sole purpose was to subscribe to every single federated community, would that mean Lemmy.World users wouldn't have this issue?
Fediverse Observer keeps a list of NodeBB instances that have federation enabled

https://nodebb.fediverse.observer/list
I'm getting a 404 in Sync
The pricing of NodeBB goes from $20USD to $100USD between the first two packages. WTAF!?

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