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This trailer doesn't really have the same vibe as the original. Some funny bits though. Maybe it will be good?

Primer. It's a movie about time travel, and it's absolutely amazingly done. But it's also mind-bending and not that exciting.

One of those things where he probably didn't expect to actually get power. And then once he has power, he gets mad when he can't do illegal things.

The vitriol between Republicans and Democrats in the US has always been there, and I think it started escalating rapidly after Nixon. Even with George Bush Jr in the early 2000s, which had its own set of big problems, it was still "civilized," although people look back at that time and think it was insane (because it was). But the rhetoric has only accelerated even more, and the Trump administrations are the natural end result of this ever-increasing polarization, unfortunately.

I feel like "reasonable" Republican positions died with out after Reagan. Even though most people in this space will never say Regan's positions were reasonable (much less good or defensible), there was still a veneer of civility and respect for what little democratic function America had at the time.

At this point, all of that has been thrown out the window. Even Pence, for how evil of a person he is, still refused to destroy the process, at least.

@[email protected] Is https://news.elenarossini.com federated?

@[email protected] said in Backfilling Conversations: Two Major Approaches:

A number of implementors follow this approach to backfill, including NodeBB, Discourse, WordPress, Frequency, Mitra, and Streams. Additional implementors like Lemmy and Piefed have expressed interest.

Is this implemented currently? One weakness I have noticed in NodeBB's current federation is that posts which are in reply to a topic (e.g. a Lemmy comment) show up as individual threads until (or if) the root post of that topic shows up in the local NodeBB. It's a bit confusing of a UX, I think. Because you think:

1. (Before root post) Why is this a post that seems to be just a random comment?
2. (After root post) Why did that other thread disappear and why am I seeing the same comment again?

I still think it would be good to update the synchronization function in admin settings to automatically slot any synced community/category into the local category, even if the sync only goes one way (e.g. with Lemmy not being able to remote follow category actors).

It's an interesting idea. Could be a way to catch interest and education.

How would this work on the NodeBB side? Multiple categories associated with one topic?

In my ever-continuing use of NodeBB as a single-user Fediverse instance, here are some things I've noticed. Both things I've already talked about before, and some new things. These are some suggestions for functionality or perhaps plugins.

1. Confusion between following remote categories as a user and the synchronization options in category settings as an admin. I think the category synchronization should be repurposed somewhat. The suggestion from @[email protected] was to perhaps rework it as a cross-posting feature.

   • Right now, the feature relies on the other ActivityPub endpoint to be able to follow the NodeBB category, which (notably Lemmy) does not always work.
   • Making a "proxy user" is a pretty common solution to this, used by Misskey etc. One single system proxy user can follow all remote categories, and then NodeBB itself can handle the synchronization.

2. Lack of posts. This is a general problem for single-user instances, and it's why things like relays and Fedifetcher exist. Support for relays would help a lot, but a Fedifetcher-like plugin/function would be even better.

   • Fedifetcher works by loading posts from the source server, and finding all the replies there. It then executes a search against your own server, which fofrces your server to load the reply. This should work just fine for NodeBB, because searching post links causes the posts to load.
   • But Fedifetcher relies on platform-specific APIs (Mastodon, Misskey, etc). So I think this would be a good candidate for a NodeBB plugin.

3. Slotting posts and topics into local categories. To me, this feels like the holy grail of integrating the traditional forum experience into the Fediverse. It's something I've brought up before, and someone was working on a plugin, but I'm not sure it ever got finished.

   • It would be amazing to add a function in the admin settings under category settings to make a list of remote ActivityPub actors that get posts slotted into the category automatically.
   • Any incoming note from that actor will be automatically put into the specified category.
   • This shouldn't need to rely on altering or updating any synchronization stuff, because it can work with any incoming post. The framework for receiving remote posts is already there.

These are all just ideas, and maybe some discussion can be had on them before I start embarking on a path of attempting to make some NodeBB plugins .

@[email protected] It would be good for outgoing posts if cross posting is used for synced categories. But it doesn't solve the problem of incoming posts. For that, it would make sense to still slot incoming posts based on the sync setup. But there is still the problem of Lemmy not accepting follows from category actors.

@[email protected] Cool, I can now load it. Another question: I have a bunch of lemmy communities (and also a few "null" entries) stuck on "pending" in the category synchronization settings. Pressing remote/delete doesn't do anything. Is there an easy way to get rid of them by editing the database?

Also, are there plans to merge the federation synchronization and new remote category following stuff together into one cohesive set of functionality?

@[email protected] Yes, maybe? https://forum.agnos.is/category/[email protected] for example. Maybe it's not federated? Since I don't see anything about what fediverse handle to use like in the ActivityPub forum.

Yep, shows up now on my end. Maybe check other categories too?

@[email protected] I was able to access it from a Lemmy instance. So it is federating, at least partly. But interesting to know that Mastodon has issues with it...

One thing that might be helpful is that NodeBB gives an invalid ID error when trying to follow the category via the sync function in admin settings. Stack trace shows it's the error being thrown when trying to follow (activitypub.js line 43).

So, this URL does work: https://forum.agnos.is/category/[email protected]

Maybe it has something to do with the activitypub category being a sub-category of nodebb development?

@[email protected] could not run it in dev mode directly because of docker compose, but did set NODE_ENV to development and got verbose logs. Only thing that shows up is:

2025-05-03T19:35:59.553Z [4567/53] - warn: Route requested but not found: /category/[email protected]

@[email protected] Will this be pushed to the Docker registry simultaneously?

I'm seeing issues with loading remote categories. I can't load the NodeBB bug reports category at all, and for the ActivityPub category, I can find it in my world category search, but I get a 404 when trying to load it. Also can't load [email protected] for example.

It seems the NodeBB development board is the only one really federating for me. Any way I can solve this?

I am running beta2 of 4.3.0.

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