An update here. Pavilion and CDCK (Discourse.org) are discussing building an ActivityPub plugin for Discourse. After some discussion, we’ve landed on the spec below. Any comments or suggestions welcome before we finalise it. Note that Support for incoming content (e.g. posts on Mastodon etc being imported into Discourse) is intentionally excluded. It will be possible to add this in a later version. Support for following users (as opposed to categories) is also intentionally excluded. It wo...
@cypherpunks I see some acid comments there, but I’m really glad to see this happening! I’m definitely not up to writing something like this from scratch, but it’s not outside the realm of possibility that I could contribute improvements later.
Being able to follow my own discourse instances from mastodon and boost then directly will be an awesome start. And there’s lots of room to grow the integration over time.
I agree. While the initial implementation proposal is hardly better than an RSS feed bot on Mastodon, it does lay the groundwork for true ActivityPub federation it seems. Discourse is a large complex software; Federation will not happen over night.
@cypherpunks I see some acid comments there, but I’m really glad to see this happening! I’m definitely not up to writing something like this from scratch, but it’s not outside the realm of possibility that I could contribute improvements later.
Being able to follow my own discourse instances from mastodon and boost then directly will be an awesome start. And there’s lots of room to grow the integration over time.
I agree. While the initial implementation proposal is hardly better than an RSS feed bot on Mastodon, it does lay the groundwork for true ActivityPub federation it seems. Discourse is a large complex software; Federation will not happen over night.
@cypherpunks Closing the loop, here’s the announcement on the #Discourse side:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921/87?u=mcdanlj