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PrivacyGuides is testing ActivityPub federation on their Discourse forum 🎉
Snoopyhttps://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/testing-activitypub-federation-on-the-forum/27422
Discourse now supports ActivityPub as a method of accessing posts, and we’re testing this out with the General > News category and our announcements. You’ll be able to find out about Mastodon posts and even reply to posts from Mastodon and they’ll show up here!
Hint: If you have a Mastodon account, link it to your forum account at https://discuss.privacyguides.net/my/preferences/activity-pub. That way if you reply or like a post on Mastodon, it will perform the reply/like here with your forum account :wink:
See https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/about for details.
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I'm going to try it with Mastodon later today. I'm not sure what the support with Lemmy will be like, but clicking on this link seems to at least load the community name / icon: !news@discuss.privacyguides.net
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flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)Hopefully they're more attentive to this than they are for their Lemmy instance (lemmy.one).
MrKaplancertainly not something i'm willing to risk. defederated them now.
the stuff is still up on lemmy.one, months from the original report, with zero indication that they care about it in the slightest.
i'm tempted to add their domains to our automod (only removal), but i'll discuss this in our team before doing so.
even if there are multiple people involved in the operation of this discourse forum, even this announcement is by jonah, who as far as i can tell is the head of these projects and also owner of the associated US companies. if this was something ran by a different team and they'd be able to separate themselves from jonah's (in)actions then it might be a different story, but as it is right now, it seems that all these services related to PrivacyGuides are operated by the same entity.
I didnt know it was the same admin. Just looked into it and you should block mstdn.party too if you're not already.
already did. it's the same person running the infrastructure, although moderation of mstdn.party and mstdn.plus is handled by someone else.
we've since been in contact with the person running these services and the material has been taken down on lemmy.one, as well as lemmy.one closing down in three months.
we're still discussing in our team how we will deal with this going forward and will be posting a new announcement about this in the coming days.
you can read https://lemmy.world/post/29550945 for our previous writeup about this.
HamillerI think Lemmy only shows the posts in a community when at least one user has joined from their own instance.
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I've tested the discourse plugin before. It's focused on mastodon and doesn't work well with lemmy. You can pull the comm, but new posts won't sync automatically.
Following from Mbin also seems fine, for any Mbinauts or whatever we're called. Like following any other new community, your instance will only receive updates going forward, not the backdated posts, so I can't speak for how well it works until there's some new news.
It's neat to see more services like this come into the ActivityPub fold. Obviously some stuff doesn't work great together, like interacting with Lemmy from Mastodon, but forum-based stuff like Discourse could integrate really nicely with the threadiverse. Excited to see how this goes.
EDIT: Well, there have been some new news posts since I made this comment and they have not federated to Mbin as either threads or microblog posts, so I'd say that right now, following Discourse forums with ActivityPub support is essentially non-functional.
Given the other comments in this thread, PrivacyGuides is perhaps not the forum you most want to subscribe to anyway. Regardless, Discourse as a software still seems like it should interact well with the threadiverse, but currently it does not.
EDIT2: OK, I see why it doesn't work well with Mbin (and Lemmy as well). For ActivityPub purposes, whether by design or by configuration, topics posted to the forum are treated as posts by the original topic creator, boosted by the community.
However, Mbin magazines/Lemmy communities don't have boosting as a concept, there's simply no interface for a community to boost another post, so there's no way to see what the PrivacyGuides news community has boosted, i.e. the things that have been posted to the forum.
FYI PrivacyGuides is operated by a CSAM-friendly entity, they completely ignore abuse reports about CSAM hosted on their platforms.
I can only recommend everyone to defed from them.
edit: the material on lemmy.one has since been taken down, we will be providing an update post in !lemmyworld@lemmy.world soon with our future plans for dealing with these platforms.
Thank, you may want to inform @rimu@piefed.social about this and other forumverse admin.
it was already shared in an admin coordination matrix room as well
piefed.social automatically defederated from discuss.privacyguides.net when lemmy.world did.
piefed.social has now also manually defederated from discuss.privacyguides.net. All instances that follow piefed.social's defederations will automatically do the same.
fractal defederation!
Ahah i will save it for PieFed wiki. :)