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Categories following Federated Accounts? (community.nodebb.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/activitypub@community.nodebb.org
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So I was wondering if there was a way for me to have a Category follow a federated account.

I can't seem to find the way to do it if that's possible.

But optimally the category would post a topic related to the new posts the followed account would post. Or something like that.

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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

frankm@linux-nerds.org the reason why I'm hesitant about this is because allowing a category to follow a user bakes in the assumption that everything the user posts is relevant.

If you're following something like the linux foundation that's a pretty safe bet for a Linux category, but what if you follow a user and they start sharing or posting about unrelated things, like what they had for breakfast, etc.?

That's where things could get messy.

But, I absolutely love :heart: the idea of creating a category and making it sort of like a curated channel based around one idea.

This is the kind of cool stuff I want to see!

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    frankm@linux-nerds.org this is now done. Turns out I wasn't actually stopping a category from following a user, so that didn't need rolling back.

    https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/13232

    hamiller@forum.wedistribute.org using a hashtag is probably also something I should allow categories to follow, although that's local-only to the instance because of how hashtags work.

    Either way I didn't want to restrict a valid use case :)

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Hi julian , and sorry for trying to resurrect this (somewhat old) thread I happened to read. When you said to hamiller@forum.wedistribute.org

    > "I should probably allow categories to track hashtag usage, even if it's local, given how hashtags work."

    I thought this was now possible. In fact, I thought this was exactly what happens to your "General Discussion" category on Activitypub.space.

    But then I looked in the settings of my federated NodeBB instance, and maybe it's not as I thought. So, I wonder (and ask you): how do you manage to aggregate "general discussion" threads? Is there an automatic way, or do you do it manually with "move thread"?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    informapirata indeed! This is configurable under the site-wide ActivityPub settings under "auto categorization rules".

    For that site I have hashtags like "ActivityPub" and "fedimod" set up to automatically categorize discussions.

    It only matches for discussions that don't already have a category of their own (so, microblog stuff.)

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