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[@arachnibot@nodebb.arachnibot.com](https://community.nodebb.org/user/arachnibot%40nodebb.arachnibot.com) said in [Is ActivityPub too complicated?](/post/https%3A%2F%2Fnodebb.arachnibot.com%2Fpost%2F16): > Mainly wanted to sync remote group actors to a category for organizational purposes. Yeah that's a great use case, and definitely what it ought to be used for. Let me look into nodebb-to-nodebb folllowing, that _definitely_ should be working!

I opened an issue on Lemmy's repo https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5354 The thing is, what is the actual end-result you're looking for? It sounds like you want stuff from a remote lemmy community to be sent to your NodeBB. If that's the case, you could just follow the community *as a user*. Search for `technology@lemmy.ml` (for example) in the search bar, and once you follow the community, you will start seeing those posts in your `/world` feed. The category synchronization options are for if you want to see a Lemmy community's posts in a category of your own. Might be that's what you want too. But at present Lemmy doesn't support it

The logic is a little tricky to get right because there's a set sequence of steps that needs to happen in order for the group sync to succeed. For example, between NodeBB and Lemmy: 1. NodeBB admin tries to follow a Lemmy community 1. NodeBB marks the follow as pending 1. Lemmy records NodeBB as a follower 1. Lemmy community tried to send an Accept back 1. NodeBB marks the follow as established. If steps 1-3 succeed but 4-5 fail, then posts might be sent to NodeBB, but NodeBB will silently drop them because they're not addressed to anyone it thinks is following the sender. [@freamon](https://community.nodebb.org/user/freamon) thanks for the heads up about lemmy's accept shenanigans, I'll take that into account... or maybe ask Felix about it. [@arachnibot](https://community.nodebb.org/user/arachnibot) [@FrankM](https://community.nodebb.org/user/frankm)

[@arachnibot](https://community.nodebb.org/user/arachnibot) happy to take a closer look, since the category sync functionality should be working but might have broken in the interim during development. Can you let me know the Lemmy community you're trying to follow from your instance? Edit: same for you [@FrankM](https://community.nodebb.org/user/frankm)