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julian

tl;dr — how do PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin handle cross-posting?

Currently, when a NodeBB admin moves a topic from the uncategorized pseudo-category into a local category, we federate out an as:Announce, people typically think of that as a "boost" or "share".

That worked fine when the entirety of the category list was your local categories plus the "uncategorized" pseudo-category. However, now that NodeBB is moving towards supporting remote categories (via group actors), this UX makes less sense. We wouldn't want to "move" a topic out of the category it is supposed to be in, just for visibility to other local users. Additionally, topic moving was limited to administrators, and from the get-go we knew it would eventually cause issues because people other than admins would want to share topics to other local users.

This is where the "cross-post" functionality comes in, which is entirely new to NodeBB. I don't think this is new to other AP-enabled threaded discussion software. The idea would be that if a new topic comes in, whether it's uncategorized or not, any user could "cross-post" that topic to a local category, where it would be visible to other users on that instance. On the ActivityPub side, we would then federate out an as:Announce as we already do.

Is this what PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin already do, if they support cross-posting? What other alternative solutions would there be to this problem?

cc @rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz @andrew_s@piefed.social @nutomic@lemmy.ml @bentigorlich@wehavecookies.social

#threadiverse#piefed#lemmy
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AJ Sadauskas

@jasperb @sebastian @futurebird @Gargron @dansup @pixelfed Interesting detail from that link: "Mastodon has been developing a built-in groups feature for some time now, but it hasn’t been released yet. From the screenshots posted so far, it seems it will be more of a Facebook Groups type forum rather than a public discussion list. (You can see highly technical details and screenshots of this upcoming Groups feature on their github page github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p )

"However, it is unclear if Mastodon groups will work across the Fediverse or only on Mastodon. Guppe is platform-neutral, and will work on any kind of Fediverse server that supports microblogging including Mastodon, Friendica and others."

fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on

Lots of activity on the Github page around 2022 by @ClearlyClaire but not much since?

Also, there's a video on how it'll work, and this note: "This PR is not intended to be merged outside of purely development environments until it's finished. While it has reached a pretty stable state, groups are a complicated topic, and the database model, API and protocol design may change before the PR gets merged, with no clear migration path between versions of this PR."

⚠️ Do not merge ⚠️ This PR is not intended to be merged outside of purely development environments until it's finished. While it has reached a pretty stable state, groups are a complicated top...
GitHubAdd groups support by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #19059 · mastodon/mastodonBy ClearlyClaire
#Mastodon#Fediverse#ActivityPub
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Oliver :apple_inc:

#reddit war echt einmal eine Anlaufstelle für viele Informationen, lange vor dem Boykott von Drittanbieterapps oder offensichtlicher Zensur.

Das Maß ist mittlerweile aber voll und mein Switch zu #lemmy ist nun endlich erfolgt - an der User Experience muss ich noch arbeiten und die passenden Communities finden, aber es wird! 🐭

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lemmy.midgardmates.com@oliver - LemmyAppeared at 337.69 PPM CO₂. Dad. #Cloud-addict. :apple:-user and :linux:-geek, too! 🖤 (Black-/ Death-/ Gothic- & Doom) #Metal. #Traveller. #Photographer. #Blogger. #Selfhoster. Further topics: #history #it #security #energytransition #science #foss #fedi22 #fedipact #noafd
#selfhosted#redditmigration#unplugtrump
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PerfectDark

@gbryant

Oh my Gosh, if you'd asked me 2 years ago, I'd have been the first in line to defend and adore Reddit.

I spent 𝘴𝘰 much of my time moderating some giant sub-reddits and creating content there. But as the various hiccups happened, they burned all of my goodwill.

I left for the last time in November or December last year, and ever since I have been all-in with the #Fediverse and #Mastodon and #Lemmy

I hate what Reddit has become, it is dead to me now.

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Abnormal Human Being

Server #update

#Gmail has started rejecting #mail from mail.abnormalbeings.space - even though going through their checklist, I should have everything set up they need, and mails were accepted before.

I have started an appeal process.

For signups on #PeerTube #Mastodon and #Lemmy - please use another mail provider. As long as volume is low, I will forward some of the confirmation link mails, but this won't be a guarantee.

Another reason to leave big tech behind for mail as well, I guess.

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plastic monkey memes

Tested Lmmy/Mstdn/Shrky/Pxlfd/Frndca and my habits revealed that:

1. Lemmy: a silo - cross posting + likes + comments don’t work well with others, use as solo service
2. Mastodon: main driver for posting + reading microblogs, pixelfed and others as it seems to interact and link best.
3. Mastodon replacing sharkey. (My sharkey account stopped posting to lemmy…?)
4. Pixelfed etc just for following

#mastodon#Sharkey#lemmy
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