Hey @julian@community.nodebb.org I'm currently experimenting with a NodeBB setup that has ActivityPub enabled.
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I didn't want to go as far as allowing categories to follow individual actors, because categories are for topical discussion and individual users tend to be less focused on a single topic.
So categories can follow other
Groupactors only. That is by design.However, a category is an actor, and anybody can follow it. They just need to know the handle, which is set in the admin panel and by default is usually the same as the "slug", which is the human readable bit in the url. e.g. "General Discussion"'s slug is
general-discussion. I do have to expose this to the frontend, though. It is not immediately apparent this is so.Share your thoughts in this GitHub issue opened by @panos@catodon.social https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/13126
Hi there! I'm sure this will be a very stupid question, but...
I recently got to federate my #NodeBB forum, and I can see and follow my user there @xbermusic@piano.cat , send messages and so on, so far so great.
I'd like to follow categories from the forum, but even when there is a handle for it ("proves" in the screenshot) I can't get to find not follow @proves@piano.cat
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks a lot!
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Hi there! I'm sure this will be a very stupid question, but...
I recently got to federate my #NodeBB forum, and I can see and follow my user there @xbermusic@piano.cat , send messages and so on, so far so great.
I'd like to follow categories from the forum, but even when there is a handle for it ("proves" in the screenshot) I can't get to find not follow @proves@piano.cat
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks a lot!
Hi @xbermusic@mastodont.cat, can you check the category privileges and ensure that the
fediversepseudo-user has all of the privileges available to it, specifically "Find Category" and "Access Category"? -
@julian hi! Yes, permissions seem to be ok.
I had some issues because the domain pointed to the correct IP, but it didn't point back to the domain, but now that seems to be solved.
Should I delete and create again the categories or maybe turn off federation and turn it on again on them?
Thanks!
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@julian hi! Yes, permissions seem to be ok.
I had some issues because the domain pointed to the correct IP, but it didn't point back to the domain, but now that seems to be solved.
Should I delete and create again the categories or maybe turn off federation and turn it on again on them?
Thanks!
@xbermusic@mastodont.cat are you still unable to find categories?
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@julian hi! Unfortunately not.
I made a post making the categories expecting that somehow I could follow them from Mastodon.
I used the handle @anuncis and that created a link with this: https://piano.cat/category/1/anuncis, but opening it from Mastodon doesn't lead to a pseudo-user but the category in my forum.
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@julian hi! Unfortunately not.
I made a post making the categories expecting that somehow I could follow them from Mastodon.
I used the handle @anuncis and that created a link with this: https://piano.cat/category/1/anuncis, but opening it from Mastodon doesn't lead to a pseudo-user but the category in my forum.
@xbermusic@mastodont.cat can you try renaming the handle to something else and back again?
