I may regret creating this topic but here goes.

If you experience a bug or other unexpected behavior while using NodeBB and its related ActivityPub integration, please post it here so it can be tracked and resolved.

No formal process as of yet, and we're still at pre-alpha so expect many things to be broken or unavailable

I'm getting this delivery failure trying to send a follow to a category inbox

[Discourse Activity Pub] POST request to https://community.nodebb.org/category/31/inbox failed: Expected([200, 201, 202]) <=> Actual(400 Bad Request)
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/actor/797217cf18c0e819dfafc52425590146 failed to deliver to https://community.nodebb.org/category/31/inbox
id: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/activity/02feb8d245fa780e4683d03015f1b41e
type: Follow
to: https://community.nodebb.org/category/31
cc:
- https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public
published: '2024-04-05T18:09:14Z'
updated: '2024-04-05T18:09:14Z'
actor: !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess
  id: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/actor/797217cf18c0e819dfafc52425590146
  type: Group
  updated: '2024-04-05T12:49:51Z'
  url: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/c/meeting/threadiverse-wg/88
  name: Threadiverse Working Group (SocialHub)
  inbox: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/actor/797217cf18c0e819dfafc52425590146/inbox
  outbox: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/actor/797217cf18c0e819dfafc52425590146/outbox
  followers: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/actor/797217cf18c0e819dfafc52425590146/followers
  preferredUsername: threadiverse-wg
  ...

@Angus-McLeod did it just send a 400 or was there an error message involved in the response?

Edit: I added some additional debugging to the S2S validation logic. Can you try to follow @general-discussion@bb.devnull.land? That instance is my testing instance and is a little quieter.

@skyfoxx @AltCode@social.vivaldi.net I... don't know what I did, but kbin.social is down now! Oh boy.

I may regret creating this topic but here goes.

If you experience a bug or other unexpected behavior while using NodeBB and its related ActivityPub integration, please post it here so it can be tracked and resolved.

No formal process as of yet, and we're still at pre-alpha so expect many things to be broken or unavailable

I may regret creating this topic but here goes.

If you experience a bug or other unexpected behavior while using NodeBB and its related ActivityPub integration, please post it here so it can be tracked and resolved.

No formal process as of yet, and we're still at pre-alpha so expect many things to be broken or unavailable

I may regret creating this topic but here goes.

If you experience a bug or other unexpected behavior while using NodeBB and its related ActivityPub integration, please post it here so it can be tracked and resolved.

No formal process as of yet, and we're still at pre-alpha so expect many things to be broken or unavailable

Error 405 Not Allowed after trying to reply and hitting Submit button.

When you click on the world/all icon, the world/curated icon also highlights

I may regret creating this topic but here goes.

If you experience a bug or other unexpected behavior while using NodeBB and its related ActivityPub integration, please post it here so it can be tracked and resolved.

No formal process as of yet, and we're still at pre-alpha so expect many things to be broken or unavailable

I may regret creating this topic but here goes.

If you experience a bug or other unexpected behavior while using NodeBB and its related ActivityPub integration, please post it here so it can be tracked and resolved.

No formal process as of yet, and we're still at pre-alpha so expect many things to be broken or unavailable

I may regret creating this topic but here goes.

If you experience a bug or other unexpected behavior while using NodeBB and its related ActivityPub integration, please post it here so it can be tracked and resolved.

No formal process as of yet, and we're still at pre-alpha so expect many things to be broken or unavailable

ActivityPub user profile > Flag Profile window:

It looks to be an API call and returns {"errors":["Bad request"]}. /ap/actor/ae0fea90a57bf109abf03f47806c7285 tells nothing to end user so it would be nice to change it to something familiar for local community or Fediverse handle.

I may regret creating this topic but here goes.

If you experience a bug or other unexpected behavior while using NodeBB and its related ActivityPub integration, please post it here so it can be tracked and resolved.

No formal process as of yet, and we're still at pre-alpha so expect many things to be broken or unavailable

hi @julian , I wonder how search engines and SEO will work for federated posts? Let's say I published a post specific to forum-1 on forum-1, however since it is federated out, the same posts and topic can be found on 10+ more websites simultaneously... and let's assume forum-2 is higher ranked on search engines for some reasons...

when people are searching related keywords on search engines, will they be directed to forum-1? or forum-2, namely the forum that search engine favors/ranked higher?

@crazycells That's a good question, and not one I'm sure I have the answer for.

It's something I wonder about because it has been said that search engines will penalize sites that contain repetitive content. Does that mean we may see downweighting because federated content can be found word-for-word elsewhere? I don't know.

I think what might be a good practice would be for a site to refer back to the original site if available.

For example, if you inspect the source for this topic, you'll see that it contains a canonical reference:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17867/pre-alpha-activitypub-related-bug-reports?page=3" />

If this topic appears elsewhere (and it does, on the ActivityPub SocialHub), then it would be better if that site also provided a canonical reference back to community.nodebb.org, but that's not a requirement anywhere at this point in time.

That way, a search engine upon encountering a site, would be able to learn the appropriate original source and weight it accordingly.

@crazycells That's a good question, and not one I'm sure I have the answer for.

It's something I wonder about because it has been said that search engines will penalize sites that contain repetitive content. Does that mean we may see downweighting because federated content can be found word-for-word elsewhere? I don't know.

I think what might be a good practice would be for a site to refer back to the original site if available.

For example, if you inspect the source for this topic, you'll see that it contains a canonical reference:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17867/pre-alpha-activitypub-related-bug-reports?page=3" />

If this topic appears elsewhere (and it does, on the ActivityPub SocialHub), then it would be better if that site also provided a canonical reference back to community.nodebb.org, but that's not a requirement anywhere at this point in time.

That way, a search engine upon encountering a site, would be able to learn the appropriate original source and weight it accordingly.

@julian additionally, I have just checked "ActivityPub SocialHub" , my edited post is not updated there either...

and here -originally- I just made a comment in a topic, but there it looks like I opened a new topic... and with a very ugly title is this because you have adjusted it that way?

@julian thanks for the answer. my guess is that since google or bing do not have any contribution to the fediverse or any activitypub adopting sites (or do they?), maybe they will simply not care enough or change anything about their calculations... lol...

additionally, I believe there is this bug ... edited federated posts are not updated on other sites? This is what it looks like on mastodon social however I have edited the second to the last word as ranks 4 days ago?