cloudron, 3 months ago

@devnull @nodebb
we will surely keep both, but more importantly what does it actually mean if a forum federates? :)

devnull, 3 months ago

@cloudron Ah, good question!

At minimum it'd mean users would be able to talk back and forth between your forum and the wider fediverse (your mastodon server included, of course). Depending on the nature of discussion, it may be easier to parse discussions in a forum UX😄

Biggest thing is Mastodon acts more like a gateway to the fediverse, while #nodebb can curate long-running conversations better.

The latest update detailed below ⬇️

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17803/january-update-on-activitypub-development

cc @Vivaldi

kencotton, 2 months ago

@devnull @cloudron
This seems huge to me. I caught it on
https://hackaday.social/
Checked the #Cloudron @nodebb forum category and see this from last year.
https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/9470/nodebb-activitypub

I discovered #NodeBB via Cloudron 2 years ago. I am very happy with and highly recommend both products.
And can recommend the actual Cloudron forums for not only the excellent support by staff that goes above & beyond, but also the valuable input from users when it comes to discovery and filtering for quality apps.

Vivaldi, 3 months ago

Hey @devnull! 👋

We're definitively interested! :tony_happy: We haven't looked into it yet, though. Is there any documentation already available we could take a look at?

devnull, 3 months ago

@Vivaldi not yet 😅 I've only started working on it this month, but I'd love to chat more about rolling it out to your forum first... if that's something you're interested in?