Does anybody know what exactly Pleroma needs for a valid Webfinger check? I'm attempting to figure out why @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social won't resolve in NodeBB, and it's because the webfinger call returns 400 Bad Request.

NodeBB is calling https://pleroma.debian.social/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct%3Ajmtd%40pleroma.debian.social with User-Agent and Content-Type headers (curiously, it's not sending Accept, but it also fails if that header is set, so that's irrelevant.)

Navigating to that webfinger url in the browser returns XML, which is but I'm not even getting that when NodeBB makes the call.

Oh, @icaria36@the.socialmusic.network is running Discourse. Well, all bets are off then

@freamon Create(ChatMessage) is not part of ActivityPub. From my light research online it is something added by a Pleroma extension and possibly supported by Lemmy.

NodeBB will automatically slot received non-public notes as chat messages.

@kirk@social.coop just wanted to drop a note that your two issues have not been forgotten

Hey @dansup@mastodon.social, can I poke you about getting NodeBB on FediDB?

It automatically picked up a couple NodeBB sites, so I think the nodeinfo stuff is working, just not sure if it required some manual intervention on your end to get the software link working — it currently 404s.

Cheers

@CWSmith not right now, no. A category can only follow other accounts that identify themselves as "Group". This is to take advantage of synchronization logic that regular users don't supply (and even then not all groups do either).

However I'll keep this workflow in mind, it's an interesting idea!

@frankm@linux-nerds.org this is now done. Turns out I wasn't actually stopping a category from following a user, so that didn't need rolling back.

Ability for categories to follow regular users · Issue #13232 · NodeBB/NodeBB

This was technically already supported (as in, categories could follow regular user accounts), but it did not work consistently. Specifically, if a user was followed by a category, only the content shared by that user was automatically s...

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@hamiller@forum.wedistribute.org using a hashtag is probably also something I should allow categories to follow, although that's local-only to the instance because of how hashtags work.

Either way I didn't want to restrict a valid use case

@Kichae my fear is that adding in the ability for users to customize the forum index with dilute the importance of local categories.

I'm always a big supporter of community building, and while I am very appreciative of the network effects of activitypub, there is the other local community building side that I would want to keep top of mind as well.