2mo ago

PrivacyGuides is testing ActivityPub federation on their Discourse forum 🎉

discuss.privacyguides.net

Testing ActivityPub federation on the forum

Discourse now supports ActivityPub as a method of accessing posts, and we’re testing this out with the General > News category and our announcements. You’ll be able to find out about Mastodon posts and even reply to posts from Mastodon and they’ll show up here!
Hint: If you have a Mastodon account, link it to your forum account at https://discuss.privacyguides.net/my/preferences/activity-pub. That way if you reply or like a post on Mastodon, it will perform the reply/like here with your forum account :wink:
See https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/about for details.
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I'm going to try it with Mastodon later today. I'm not sure what the support with Lemmy will be like, but clicking on this link seems to at least load the community name / icon: !news@discuss.privacyguides.net

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I think Lemmy only shows the posts in a community when at least one user has joined from their own instance.
Hopefully they're more attentive to this than they are for their Lemmy instance (lemmy.one).
- certainly not something i'm willing to risk. defederated them now.
  the stuff is still up on lemmy.one, months from the original report, with zero indication that they care about it in the slightest.
  i'm tempted to add their domains to our automod (only removal), but i'll discuss this in our team before doing so.
  even if there are multiple people involved in the operation of this discourse forum, even this announcement is by jonah, who as far as i can tell is the head of these projects and also owner of the associated US companies. if this was something ran by a different team and they'd be able to separate themselves from jonah's (in)actions then it might be a different story, but as it is right now, it seems that all these services related to PrivacyGuides are operated by the same entity.
  
  I didnt know it was the same admin. Just looked into it and you should block mstdn.party too if you're not already.

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