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I thought that if I entered a Fediverse address here, like ‘@FrankM@nrw.social,’ it would follow that user, and their posts would then appear in the corresponding category.

But that’s not happening. There’s also no meaningful error message. The actor you see in the image probably appears because I entered an incorrect address.

Does this feature need to be enabled on the Fediverse instance ‘nrw.social’?

Who can help?

  • arachnibot@community.nodebb.org
    1·
    7 hours ago

    @julian

    Got it! Restored my database last night, but yeah it seems even a re-follow didn’t get much to my category actor (outside of manually federating a share from my old mastodon)

    Oh wait, I just realized I never shared the webfinger for the actor. mentioned below @test@nodebb.arachnibot.com

    • julian@community.nodebb.org
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I opened an issue on Lemmy’s repo

      https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5354

      The thing is, what is the actual end-result you’re looking for? It sounds like you want stuff from a remote lemmy community to be sent to your NodeBB. If that’s the case, you could just follow the community as a user. Search for technology@lemmy.ml (for example) in the search bar, and once you follow the community, you will start seeing those posts in your /world feed.

      The category synchronization options are for if you want to see a Lemmy community’s posts in a category of your own. Might be that’s what you want too.

      But at present Lemmy doesn’t support it :)

      • Arachnibot@nodebb.arachnibot.com
        1·
        2 hours ago

        @julian@community.nodebb.org Oh I think I get you? I Mainly wanted to sync remote group actors to a category for organizational purposes.

        In my exact case it would be to collect foreign group actors together so me and my pals can have a more conglomerated niche feed (i.e the games category has posts from local and remote groups sharing stuff about games). Sort of like mastodon’s lists, but with cleaner organization. (if you need a more practical example let me know!)

        I’ve got lemmy instances working in my /world feed, so that’s good news, at least. Though, it doesn’t seem I can follow other nodebb categories with my testing ground either. (for instance, https://community.nodebb.org/category/30/activitypub responds with pending as well, even if the other actors are removed from the category’s following requests)

        Thank you either way! I know activitypub support been a big goal of yours, so I really appreciate all the hard work!