Chebucto Regional Softball Club

[informapirata](https://community.nodebb.org/user/informapirata) indeed! This is configurable under the site-wide ActivityPub settings under "auto categorization rules". For that site I have hashtags like "ActivityPub" and "fedimod" set up to automatically categorize discussions. It only matches for discussions that don't already have a category of their own (so, microblog stuff.)

[smitten_@key.portend.place](https://community.nodebb.org/user/smitten_%40key.portend.place) might I suggest appropriating the ActivityPub logo? For lack of a better option. There's the "networked nodes" fediverse logo but it really loses its effect when made small.

[rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz](https://community.nodebb.org/user/rimu%40mastodon.nzoss.nz) what happens if a browser that doesn't understand protocol handlers encounters this scheme?

The PR comments suggest that making the various changes to the backend were too large to justify, and a front-end only approach would be preferred? [smitten@key.portend.place](https://community.nodebb.org/user/smitten%40key.portend.place) It raises a good point though, where if you _serve_ `web+ap://`, it's not understood by clients that are not aware of this scheme. If there were a way a client could communicate whether there is a protocol handler registered, then the server could tailor its response.

Are there implementors of web+ap? I'd be interested in adopting. I assume the fallback behaviour is to just assume https?

The concept sounds *excellent*, although there is fairly limited mobile support. Since NodeBB is an installable PWA it would be definitely nice to have it supported there as well.

[rimu@piefed.social](https://community.nodebb.org/user/rimu%40piefed.social) interesting idea... I know Evan has some thoughts about this as part of his ActivityPub HTML discovery project https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-html-discovery/ I am not sure why they did not settle on protocol handlers but I've tagged him for comment [evan@activitypub.space](https://community.nodebb.org/user/evan%40activitypub.space) [evan@cosocial.ca](https://community.nodebb.org/user/evan%40cosocial.ca)

[ska](https://community.nodebb.org/user/ska) there is an issue with category sync with Lemmy, since they do not support categories following their communities. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5354 I'll have to take a closer look at Peertube. Are you able to follow those users using your local account, not via the ACP?

[scott@loves.tech](https://community.nodebb.org/user/scott%40loves.tech) Mastodon does not use summary as content warning for Articles.

[scott@loves.tech](https://community.nodebb.org/user/scott%40loves.tech) that's probably it, if it started in the past few weeks.

That's odd, we don't produce bbcode, where did it come from?

[eeeee](/user/eeeee%40community.nodebb.org) [this blog post](https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18821/topic-thumbnails-uploads-and-media-display) should shed some light on my decision-making, but I'm open to changes!

[bh4-tech](https://community.nodebb.org/user/bh4-tech) might be not working because I did not expect urls. Can you try a handle like `dansup@mastodon.social`?

[bh4-tech](https://community.nodebb.org/user/bh4-tech) can you supply the URLs you tried to follow please?

[frankm@linux-nerds.org](https://community.nodebb.org/user/frankm%40linux-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. https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/13232 [hamiller@forum.wedistribute.org](https://community.nodebb.org/user/hamiller%40forum.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

[frankm@linux-nerds.org](https://community.nodebb.org/user/frankm%40linux-nerds.org) the reason why I'm hesitant about this is because allowing a category to follow a user bakes in the assumption that _everything the user posts is relevant_. If you're following something like the linux foundation that's a pretty safe bet for a Linux category, but what if you follow a user and they start sharing or posting about unrelated things, like what they had for breakfast, etc.? That's where things could get messy. ---- **But**, I absolutely love the idea of creating a category and making it sort of like a curated channel based around one idea. This is the kind of cool stuff I want to see!

[CWSmith](https://community.nodebb.org/user/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!

[@kirk@social.coop](https://community.nodebb.org/user/kirk%40social.coop) just wanted to drop a note that your two issues have not been forgotten

Hi [@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk](https://community.nodebb.org/user/neil%40mastodon.neilzone.co.uk), thanks [@andyprice@mastodon.social](https://community.nodebb.org/user/andyprice%40mastodon.social) for the shout out. I recommend NodeBB as it's one of a few forums that are still maintained and evolving. The latest version brings support for federation, allowing communication between it and any other software that supports ActivityPub (such as Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.) We focus on the lightweight and fast aspects of forum software. Communication should be seamless, and the software should be lightweight.

[@silverpill@mitra.social](https://community.nodebb.org/user/silverpill%40mitra.social) when discussed with Nutomic about this, I made the case that 1b12 is excellent for synchronization. 7888 (and 171b, etc.) are good for backfill, in cases where there is no 1b12 implementation available.