NodeBB (Forum software) has officially added ActivityPub support

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18545/nodebb-v4.0.0-federate-good-times-come-on

You can test it out yourself by subscribing to !support or !activitypub

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Die4Ever@programming.dev · 23 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

https://nodebb.org/showcase/

Blaze@feddit.org · 13 pts · 1y

Godot would be nice

Blaze@feddit.org · 18 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Great news!

Fitik@fedia.io · 10 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Agree, Discourse, another forum software also works on ActivityPub support. Also NodeBB seems to federate pretty well with MBin, does it federate fine with Lemmy?

Blaze@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)
Blaze@feddit.org · 0 pts · 1y

Damnit, it working just before but now it doesn't work on NodeBB 😅

Blaze@feddit.org · 8 pts · 1y

!activitypub@community.nodebb.org

Emperor@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Good to see.

In theory, a lot of forum software could bolt ActivityPub on. It should be an interesting time now we have proof of concept.

There is a W3C's SWCG ActivityPub based Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force. The NodeBB forum for it.

Fitik@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

@Emperor@feddit.uk Agree, and now you can follow it directly at !swicg-threadiverse-wg@community.nodebb.org

Edit: My software doesn't support - symbol, but you can follow it at !swicg-threadiverse-wg@community.nodebb.org

Emperor@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y

Cool, I was trying to figure out if there was a way to do that.

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al · 11 pts · 1y (4 replies)

!support@community.nodebb.org or !activitypub@community.nodebb.org

Fitik@fedia.io · 8 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Thanks for linking links that work on Lemmy! I'm unsure why mine don't work on it

Die4Ever@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

because you used /m/ instead of /c/, but really the format !communityname@instancename.com should be used instead of trying to manually make URLs

Fitik@fedia.io · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I just typed !magazine@instance, it has always worked before, I might create a bug report on GitHub

Die4Ever@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y

oh you let it autocomplete, check the source of your post

at least on Lemmy, it works better if you don't let it autocomplete... kinda silly, but there's a bug report for that on the Lemmy side, idk about Mbin

Kichae@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Ok, which one of you goobers killed the website?

Blaze@feddit.org · 17 pts · 1y

Lemmy grip of death

Fitik@fedia.io · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Lmao, might have to do something with this?

https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

Kichae@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y

I'd be surprised. They've actually been federating for months now. Maybe they've seen a rush of signups kicking the tires, and that's expanded the firehose?

Die4Ever@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

their server is down right now, but it did federate with lemmy.ml before going down https://lemmy.ml/c/activitypub@community.nodebb.org

https://programming.dev/c/nodebb-development@community.nodebb.org

also you can read their announcement from their Mastodon profile @nodebb@fosstodon.org

edit: it's back up, to see the announcement post in Lemmy format, put this in your Lemmy's search: https://community.nodebb.org/post/102756

it's from !nodebb-development@community.nodebb.org

Blaze@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y
cm0002@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

but it did federate with lemmy.ml

How unfortunate

melroy@kbin.melroy.org · 6 pts · 1y

Welcome on board I guess?

michaelc@social.rootaccess.org · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

@Fitik Fantastic news!

Fitik@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y

@michaelc@social.rootaccess.org Agree, they have 15k stars on GitHub, so seems pretty substantial to me

jagged_circle@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 1y

Is there a secure way to install it? Or does it use npm?