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Thank you!

Thank you. 1. I’ll definitely check out Anubis and your configuration to see if it will work for my scenario. 2. Ok, good to know - if it’s simply a bug then that that’s fine, mostly I wanted to make sure it wasn’t an indicator that something deeper was broken or getting blocked in the communication. 3. Sorry, I used the term instance when I meant community. But it sounds like the federation is more so to bring traffic into the forum, rather then out. Did I understand that correctly? If that is the case, then I may not opt to use it - as I was originally hoping for a way to push forum content into communities. I’ll explore this further I guess - because I’m unfamiliar with relays and fedibuzz.

Overall, I appreciate the detailed response :)

So I decided to set up a nodeBB server on a VPS and am trying to get everything set up - and I am trying to get the fediverse working. I have a couple of questions for anyone who might have some experience.

1. I am using cloudflare for the domain host, and it seems that I need to turn off bot fighting in order for the federation to work. Is this actually the case, or is there something I am doing wrong? If it is the case, is it that big of a deal? Will I get a lot of spam or bot traffic? Is there a custom rule I can make that night not be as good as bot fighting, but mitigate it slightly? (Without paying for additional cloudflare services) I’m not sure what I’m doing with cloudflare tbh, I’ve just been asking an LLM to help me correctly set it up.

2. I think I have it working, but I followed my piefed account within my nodeBB profile to test it - and while my profile shows that I am following the piefed account, the actual indicator that shows number of people following remains at 0. (See photos. On mobile atm, but it’s the same on the desktop.)

3. How does the federation actually work - I’m new to the fediverse, but I’m curious of how to actually use nodeBB with the fediverse. Is /world for people to simply use the forum as a hub to browse their other feeds? Is there also a way to set up each category posting to specific instances? What is the “standard” or “expected” way to integrate the forum into the fediverse - and can it be used to help bring new members to the forum?

Sorry if some of this is trivial, slowly trying to navigate and wrap my head around things. Hopefully someone on here has some experience with this?

https://media.piefed.zip/posts/0G/9m/0G9monyeTkeSHpQ.png https://media.piefed.zip/posts/mU/Zt/mUZtzIcjbi8gVLm.png

https://atproto.africa/

https://firehouse.network/ https://relay.fire.hose.cam/

I tried googling it, but no results listed any contact info.

LMAO

LMAO.

👌👌👌

Not really.

Gup.pe groups were genuine ActivityPub Groups, like Lemmy communities, whereas these ‘FediGroup’ things are just Mastodon bots. They’re a ‘Service’, aka the automated version of a ‘Person’, so they’re no use to anyone on platforms (like Lemmy) that can only follow Groups.

The most similar recent thing to gup.pe is https://ovo.st/

Compare:

curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse | jq -r .type   
=> Group   
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://ovo.st/club/askfedi | jq -r .type  
=> Group

with

curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction | jq -r .type  
=> Service

Ah. That’s disappointing. It does explain why it was running on a mastodon instance though.

Yep.

FediGroups works with all the popular server types – Mastodon, Misskey, Firefish, Iceshrimp, Sharkey, Catodon, Friendica

Weird exclusion of all threadiverse server types, there.

Yep, but to get those features you have to access it from the piefed/lemmy instance. gup.pe/friendica style groups predate lemmy though, and were designed to be accessed from your mastodon/fediverse account, rather than being signed in to directly.

Im right now using lemmy/piefed but what other neat projects should i look into as a newcomer to this world?

Im not looking for anything in particular, i just want to expand what i use and see more projects.

BookWyrm, reading tracker and review sharing

I don’t know if it’s wrong and how much, but I’ve seen it likened to Imgur more than YouTube: a place from which you link your videos in other parts of the recovered, rather than a platform to browse videos fed by the algorithm. Sorry if I’m mistaken.

evil.social down for weeks

There's a Sharkey-like (Catodon) instance called evil.social. A few months ago, I created an alternate account there so I could have an alternative to calckey.world (another Sharkey-like instance) for situations where Calckey would be experiencing downtime (with Calckey itself having been an alternative for my earlier Friendica account, after Friendica began experiencing frequent downtime occurrences; eventually I ended up staying on Calckey permanently).

At the time, their ActivityPub federation capabilities didn't seem to work properly, I couldn't fetch posts/comments from other instances as well as Calckey.world can. Nonetheless, I still kept the evil.social account as an alternative.

Now, it's been a few weeks since evil.social began returning 502 (Bad Gateway).

Anybody knows what's happening with said instance? Is it temporary downtime or the instance is likely gone forever? If the latter is the case, what alternatives to Calckey.world, other than Evil.social, should I be aware of, as someone who's used both to personal micro-blogging as well as interacting with posts and comments from threadiverse, and someone who's used to write lengthy texts (so max char length matters to me)?

@fediverse@lemmy.world @fediverse@lemmy.ml

They are so evil they even take their services down to keep the bad vibes going 😭

Vote manipulation is rare, but it does happen. Some examples:

• https://lemmy.ca/post/57235699/20685355
  
• https://piefed.ca/c/comicstrips/p/527462 (recent)
  

Even after the users are banned, their malicious voting activity sticks around.

Should admins have the ability to discard votes from banned users? Should mods? If so, how do you think it should be implemented and can you think of any concerns with having that option