Hey @[email protected] I'm currently experimenting with a NodeBB setup that has ActivityPub enabled.
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@[email protected] Any user (of any type) can submit posts to a category. They need only mention the category.
e.g. Mention @testing-ground here, and when received by NodeBB, it should automatically be slotted in that category.
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@julian I just ran into this. I guessed that the 'shortname' for https://forum.wedistribute.org/category/6/the-decentered-podcast would be 'the-decentered-podcast' but trying to fetch [email protected] didn't work, because it's actually just 'decentered'. I don't think that there's a way for anybody just looking at HTML representation to know this.
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@[email protected]
I just looked at your wedistribute.org website, and it looks great
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@freamon open to suggestions on how to expose this to the end user.
If accessing the content from fedi the handle is irrelevant, since it's part of the AP actor payload.
I'll admit I didn't really consider the use case of someone accessing the forum directly and looking for the handle to follow.
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@julian For a lot of people, the standard flow is to copy someone's handle, go back to their home base on Mastodon or Hubzilla or whatever, and follow or connect with them. Making the handle visible on the NodeBB UI would help people who use that flow.
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@julian I like how PeerTube does it. Looking at https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos, for example, there's 2 intersecting squares next to the channel name, and clicking that puts the handle into my clipboard, for pasting into the box that I can then use on my instance to fetch it.
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@freamon You also have the Hubzilla example, which shows the entire handle below the user's display name.
For example, mine shows up as:
Scott M. Stolz
[email protected]
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@julian Another thing to consider is that showing handles is a good way to prevent spoofing or identity confusion. That way you can tell the difference between julian@community,nodebb.org and [email protected]. The fact that the domain is different alerts the user that this is not the same Julian.
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited byThis is not the same Julian. This is Julian from Hubzilla Monster. I want cookies. Nom Nom Nom.
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@freamon ah, I see. Yes we could experiment with putting the handle underneath the category name.
@[email protected], we're talking about categories here, not users.
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@julian I know, but I was too lazy to start a new topic. :winking_face_with_tongue:
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited bySpeaking of which, I keep forgetting how to create a new topic. Are the handles for that exposed anywhere on NodeBB?
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@[email protected] same shortcoming as finding the category for following, the handle isn't exposed.
Also not all categories federate so whatever solution we adopt has to also communicate if a category is local only to the instance.
