NodeBB-ActivityPub Bridge Test Instance

This looks good.
Just my thoughts on Lemmy, I have various issues with it not federating well to various site at times. I mention this only if you encounter testing issues with Lemmy, more likely the issue is their side.
It has some good features but its frustrating as the instance I use appears to have issues at times!

Just to say there are a lot of things NodeBB is getting right, in comparison to other Federated sites.
Mastodon is ok in some respects but when replies to threads come through the response comes in the feed alone and out of context. Nodebb shows the thread in World which is far better for following the discussion.
As for Lemmy, not sure if the instance Im on is not updated to latest version, but some things dont work well.
@Julian I only heard about Lemmy via you .. (Sometimes I wish Id never gone there lol)
It is good for searching, but its been problematic in other areas. Do you know who codes Lemmy and do they visit here, or is it someone in your federation network?

If a site has a 'niche' theme and you want to find people with likeminded interests out in the Fediverse, the searching would be useful.
Correct me if I am wrong, but Mastodon doesn't seem to have categories, Ive only seen it on Lemmy.
In a way a category on Lemmy is like a nodebb instance, as most nodebb instances are for a certain area.
So one might argue that posting on a particular nodebb forum is akin to posting on a Lemmy category?

My first experience with Federation was with Calckey, (fork of Miskey.)
I liked some things about it, but there were forks of forks and I never knew in the end which variant of it was best to use

Yea, odd, I made a second account on mysite and that follows and unfollows normally.
So its a mystery why my first Admin account is doing it differently.
Maybe one day we will figure out whats altering the behaviour

That wont work, but it would be useful to be able to have functioning js in posts.
You can put it in widgets of course, so probably wouldnt be that difficult in theory

Thanks, I tried unfollowing and following again, but its always the same.
On this instance it says following and my one it says 'cancell follow request' although the pop up box said 'You are now follwing etc'
I wonder is the difference because Im admin. It doesnt make sense why it displays differently

I followed mander@medicine.xyz from my account on this instance, and another nodebb instance.
This one shows Following, the other shows pending!
Follows dont need acceptance do they, why the difference?

That sounds good

I get your dilema about should it post in world or in medicine@mander.xyz
So if I want it to go in mander@xyz how to specify that?

Ok but I also referenced @isurg@lemm.ee and that didnt get a notification either

I still cant post into a community on Lemmy. Ive had more tries and looked at other posts which are going in. It seems they are directed in there somehow, not just by mentioning the group in the post.
@julian did you get any idea on this?

I know the initial brief was not for nodebb to replace other ActivityPub clients (like Mastodon and Lemmy.)
But theres some things Im not keen on in Mastodon, and Lemmy is annoying. Although good for searching, it is far from ideal in other respects.
So there is a gap in the market for a ActivityPub system based on Node (and not an exotic combination of other languages)
So, theres a good opportunity for Nodebb to fill that gap!

I look in medicine group and I can see a post I made from Lemm.ee earlier, but not this one from nodebb

Ok I tried this as as a root post

Ok, if I can give specific example. I found a community via lemmy which is interesting.
@medicine@mander.xyz
If I want to post a topic in it, can I make a nodebb post and send it there?

Very complicated all this Fediverse stuff! Far from the dream of having one account for everything, I seemed to need an account on every service to get the whole picture. I have now Nodebb, Mastodon, Lemmy, PixelFed and Peertube!
I dont know if Im just not using it properly, or if seeing everything from any one of these site is even possible?
@julian how far off is the prospect of using my nodebb account for all Federated chat, is that even achievable in long term?

@deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org
I just looked at your wedistribute.org website, and it looks great
What software / system are you using for that main page?

Thanks @Kichae
I hadn't realised that functionality was already there!

Previously discussed, it takes a while to follow a set of people who might post on the topic of your forum.
Having done that, and got an interesting World feed, its a shame that isnt available to new users

Suggestion, World category has MyWorld, and World tabs
Where World follows Admins followings, and MyWorld shows post from the users followings

Hence new users get access to a World feed which is already populated.
It would make the most of this feature, that is completely empty for new users, who probably wont have any idea how to start getting posts in there