Testing ActivityPub federation on the forum

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Discourse now supports ActivityPub as a method of accessing posts, and we’re testing this out with the General > News category and our announcements. You’ll be able to find out about Mastodon posts and even reply to posts from Mastodon and they’ll show up here!

Hint: If you have a Mastodon account, link it to your forum account at https://discuss.privacyguides.net/my/preferences/activity-pub. That way if you reply or like a post on Mastodon, it will perform the reply/like here with your forum account :wink:

See https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/about for details.

If you notice anything odd or have any questions, this is the place for them! :backhand_index_pointing_down:

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@jonah cool :)

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@jonah, when I enter rokejulianlockhart@mastodon.social with the type set to “Mastodon”, I see:

An error occurred: You supplied invalid parameters to the request: Discourse::InvalidParameters

Is anyone else able to authorise a mastodon.social account?

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Ah, ignore me. You’re solely meant to enter the domain. I’d ignored the placeholder text.

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linking to an Akkoma account doesn’t seem to work, throws up an insufficient permissions message even though it should be authorised lol

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@jonah done. I am curious how it will work :)

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Weirdly I don’t see the reply over ok your mastodon (also Activists much? :wink: But hey I respect your mastodon so you get a follow ) However if you see it on your side, works.
edit: MB! I see it on the floss.social instance

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@GorujoCY Hey, I see it, nice! But I didn't get a notification for it. I noticed only because of the follow. Thanks btw and right back at ya (curious if i see all your forum posts on my mastodon feed now) :) And it seems the sync is fast, I tried several edits and by the time I clicked on the forum tab it was already there.

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@jonah hey, thats awesome!

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@jonah Welcome to fedi.

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Just linked my accounts, it’s great seeing the fediverse grow🙌

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@jonah, two more things of genuine note:

  1. I can somehow authenticate with my own account, here:

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    Could this be problematic?

  2. Entering capital letters also causes Discourse::InvalidParameters, despite DNS being case-insensitive.

Is this for Discourse Meta, though?

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I didn’t expect Discourse to be able to federate. As a fedi lover, I truly appreciate this.

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it could for a while but I guess discourse made it stable which is amazing honestly, I personally feel more forums should federate like this but that’s just my opinion

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@jonah Cool :blobcatcool: .

EDIT: I guess Mastodon emojis don't work on Discourse hehe.