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@ julian @activitypub.space

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Co-Founder (NodeBB) | Husband 🤷‍♂️ and Dad 🙉 to three | Rock Climber 🧗‍♂️ | Foodie 🥙 | Conductor 🎵 | Saxophonist 🎷

✅ Small teams craft better code.🇨🇦 Made in Canada🗨️ Federating NodeBB with funding from NLNet ♥️🇪🇺

  • Private communities

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  • From a technical POV it is theoretically possible but not tested.

    Most likely the various softwares would opt out of handling non-public content out of safety.

    It is something we'd want to work on in lockstep with all the various devs 🙂

  • I recommended The Fediverse over on Upscrolled

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  • Oh this is gold! Installing this as I have an unnatural hatred for short videos

  • Every Sunday evening... (you threadiverse people are spared this, actually)

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  • It's actually fun! I was kidding haha

    I just wanted to see what the top popular posts of the day were on my instance, and it was just all monsterdon lol.

  • There should be an indicator when an instance no longer federates with a community besides posts no longer loading

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  • A heartbeat activity! Or maybe a ping.

    I like it! Maybe I'll write an FEP for it, lol.

  • There should be an indicator when an instance no longer federates with a community besides posts no longer loading

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  • Thanks, I mean, how does this work in the backend?

  • There should be an indicator when an instance no longer federates with a community besides posts no longer loading

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  • How does this work anyway, and does it match with Lemmy's approach?

    I noticed crust was saying my dev instance was not federating anymore, which was neat. It was because I don't leave my dev instance online all the time 😁

  • This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.

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  • This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.

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  • > @anthony@forum.unfinishedprojects.net said in This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.: > > [Edit] does anybody know if nodeBB has a way to prevent federated upvotes from contributing to forum member specific reputation points?

    I didn't see this edit until just now.

    Ah... no, this is not available, but if it is important to you, I would recommend you open a GitHub issue. This could be something toggleable by admins.

  • Can Canada find digital sovereignty in the Fediverse? | BetaKit

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  • 'twas a good conference 😁

  • This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.

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  • Well, nice to see this post come up. Hello!

  • NodeBB forum federation questions.

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  • Oh! That looks to be a bug too.

  • NodeBB forum federation questions.

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  • Related Communities is just a header, the related communities themselves are listed below that header :)

  • NodeBB forum federation questions.

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  • > @unfinishedprojects@piefed.zip said in NodeBB forum federation questions.: > > But it sounds like the federation is more so to bring traffic into the forum, rather then out. Did I understand that correctly?

    NodeBB is a two-way ActivityPub server, which means that it pushes content out to the wider fediverse, as well as allowing you to discover new content via followers and /world.

    So for your use-case, NodeBB is still a good way to push forum content into communities. You can even set up NodeBB so that your forum index doesn't contain any local categories, but is actually made up of remote categories!

    For example, look at https://activitypub.space/, under the "Related Communities" section, contain a couple of sub-categories which are actually Lemmy and Piefed communities. So you are able to just post there if you have content to share :)

  • NodeBB forum federation questions.

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  • Hello! I'll try my best to answer your questions :)

    1. I honestly don't know what to do about this. I briefly played around with CloudFlare rules to get federation working, and settled on the configuration I talk about here: https://community.nodebb.org/post/105742 I later de-activated it and just set up anubis as well (although because anubis is protected by anubis, good luck getting an LLM to help you set it up LOL)
    2. The following indicator is a little wonky, you should just ignore it until I fix it :stuck_out_tongue: as long as your piefed account shows up in the page itself (/following), you're ok.
    3. /world is a feed of content from the wider fediverse. It's like a home timeline in Mastodon where it will show you content from the people you follow or content shared by your followers.
      • You should think of categories like Lemmy/Piefed communities. Instead of setting up a category to post to specific instances, you should post your content to that specific community itself (you can go to it via the /world page, by searching for its handle)
      • You can then cross-post that remote topic back to your forum. Cross-posting only works that way right now because there is no standardized way to federate cross-posts across instances, yet.

    The easiest way to integrate your forum into the fediverse is to set up some relays and use the FediBuzz relay to listen to some hashtags. You can then set up auto-categorization rules to bring those discussions into your categories. I recognize that this sounds overly complicated, I will publish some tutorials and guides about this soon so I have a better reference for it.

    Easiest way to integrate your forum into the threadiverse is to just start posting. Post to other categories on other instances... encourage people to add your categories (I guess?) and it'll start showing up in peoples' home feeds.

    I'm not exactly sure what people do on the threadiverse when they want to start a new community... lemmy-federate maybe, but NodeBB is not compatible with it yet.

  • FediGroups -- helping you share and interact across the Fediverse!

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  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
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    In celebration over the fact NodeBB submissions here actually have an image preview now, I submit...

  • Is the threadiverse abusing Likes and Dislikes?

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  • Hmmmm, I suppose, but Facebook never had a Dislike, they added emoji reactions, technically, no?

  • Creating a new Community for Creatives/Tinkerers - (Plans to Federate)

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  • > @sk@utsukta.org said: > > In hubzilla we make a post by sending a DM to the community address and the community then automatically reposts it to their followers.

    This is the same general mechanic that the threadiverse uses, although it is public-only.

    I suppose there's no reason it couldn't be used for private federated groups, except that the "Announce" that threadiverse software uses tends to assume public visibility.

    Good question though. Worth digging into.

  • Creating a new Community for Creatives/Tinkerers - (Plans to Federate)

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  • If you are setting up a self-hosted NodeBB, there won't be any need to start over if you switch to our paid hosting.

    We can take a database export from your existing install and migrate it onto our platform.

    As for costs, feel free to reach out to us, and we will see what we can do. We have a program for non-profits and charities. While that doesn't always extend to hobby forums, it never hurts to ask. Reference this thread when you reach out 🙂

  • To image cache or not to image cache

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  • As @ptz@dubvee.org said, just disable it. There's very little benefit and huge (financial) dowbside.

    Yeah storage is cheap, but S3 cache costs are also like the #1 thing people hosting Mastodon complain about.

    If you're privacy conscious and worry about IP leakage... then install a camo proxy. Done. That also solves the CORS issues.

  • Featured

    New Rule

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  • Don't get me started on what a confusing name NodeBB is. We are not creative types and we thought the association with phpBB was "cool". Well, it still is, kind of, but the association holds little weight today.

    I've heard "No Debb" too many times to count, I just roll with it now. sigh. No Debbs allowed, okay?

  • Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force @community.nodebb.org
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    February 2026 ForumWG Meeting

  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
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    Sometimes the absence of an algorithm still delivers...

  • Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force @community.nodebb.org
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    Minutes from 4 December 2025 WG Meeting

  • Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force @community.nodebb.org
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    December 2025 ForumWG Meeting

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Community mention spam from Microblogs

  • Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force @community.nodebb.org
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    Minutes from 6 November 2025 WG Meeting

  • Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force @community.nodebb.org
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    November 2025 ForumWG Meeting

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Dedicated community for Piefed announcements?

  • Fediverse @piefed.social
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    Threadiverse... on ATProto?!

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Threadiverse... on ATProto?!