Bring Xenforo to the Fediverse

[sub_ubi]

There seem to be two ways people are federating forums. I'd be happy with either one really, or a different method you dream up. I just like federation.

1) The singular timeline. Users "subscribe" to various forums: neogaf, ign, stevehoffman, the forum you run, et. al., and then popular threads appear in their fediverse timeline. This replicates the experience of joining facebook groups or reddit subs, where interesting threads from followed communities are pushed to the user. An example with activitypub.

2) Community-owners pick and choose forums from other communities to display alongside their own. The founder of Lemmy made an adorable demo of the idea,



This looks like a regular forum index except one of the forums, "lemmyBB", is not local. It exists on an entirely different community with different users, yet both local and foreign users can post within that forum. Imagine adding stevehoffman's "audio hardware" forum to your tech community, or realcavsfans adding a forum from kingsfans for some healthy NBA debate.

 

[Kevin]

Come on, XF, it's time to embrace ActivityPub....

WordPress blogs can now be followed in the fediverse, including Mastodon | TechCrunch

In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse -- the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon

techcrunch.com

ActivityPub

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format.

wordpress.org

 

[Bulbagarden]

Something like Wordpress's ActivityPub plugin would be amazing. For those of us who use article posts to create news forums and portals, making it possible for our users in the Fediverse (and Threads, when it eventually adds ActivityPub support) to directly follow us would make things a whole lot simpler.

 

[zethon]

I wrote this plugin for vBulletin back in 2010: https://github.com/zethon/vbnetwork

At one point had 4-5 boards on my network. I was ahead of time.

I've often thought of bringing something like this back for XenForo but I'm not sure how much interest there would be unless it had some other Fediverse support.

 

[sub_ubi]

I wrote this plugin for vBulletin back in 2010: https://github.com/zethon/vbnetwork

At one point had 4-5 boards on my network. I was ahead of time.

I've often thought of bringing something like this back for XenForo but I'm not sure how much interest there would be unless it had some other Fediverse support.

That's awesome!

 

[MaximilianKohler]

Found this on Lemmy:

Just to let you guys know, we just merged the PR that allows a Discourse category to follow any actor in the fediverse, including other Discourse categories. Yes, that means you can now federate a category between two (or three, or more) Discourses. There’s a few more PRs in the pipeline as part of this phase, but that was a big one.
Here’s a video me federating across two Discourse instances and a Mastodon instance running on my computer

https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794/117

 

[sub_ubi]

Found this on Lemmy:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794/117

This is perfect. I really want to get in on the ground floor, but I don't want to use discourse

 

[MaximilianKohler]

Yep. I would love it if people on lemmy and mastodon (and now discourse) could subscribe to, and post to my forum with their fediverse accounts, from the fediverse instances they're using. And if my forum posts would show up on lemmy and mastodon feeds.

 

[TPerry]

t looks like Community Hive might be just what the doctor ordered?

Coming up on 6 months later and that "offering" is sucking hind teat. I'm still getting "email notifications" on an account that has been removed and cannot be initialized again.... nice in theory, but implementation sucks.