julian
August 4, 2025, 7:29pm
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The technical specifics behind how forum federation works, and how it is accessible in other sites shouldn't be top of mind (or thought about at all) for anybody except those who are maintaining it.
For everybody else, it should just work.
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This suggestion I just posted in Julian’s topic about FediCon is relevant here;
One thing we could experiment with, if you’re keen, is a complete mirror of the existing SH using NodeBB. With full archives, and full federation so anything posted to one can be read on both. That way people can use their forum interface of choice to participate (as well as being able to use other apps via AP federation). It also ends the problem of the existing SH being a SPoF, and thus a source of tension and territorial conflict.
Cross-referencing another fragmentation issue:
I get “Conversation Not Found” too. I think there was link rot, and the insights are gone.
(Aside: It is another example of the fragmentation discussion , where I asked “what does it mean to be federated?”. The additional question it raises is.. had I copied the text to become part of the SocialHub archive, then its existence here went against the ‘right to delete’ of the one whom I quoted.)
Update : I made more reference to this fragmentation issue, by necro-posting to this topic:
I will necro-post on this thread. For a long time, in the context of Groups support for the fediverse I have stated that we need more than just group support bolted onto a microblogging use case. That a paradigm shift is needed, where we recognize that Community is everywhere, and has intricate meaningful relationships to other Communities and actors across the fediverse. A paradigm shift I dubbed..