julian

Yeah, that's kind of the disconnect here. Lemmy and Piefed are content aggregators, but NodeBB is a forum, and historically, those have been more insular in nature, with a local-only-first focus.

It's a UX-choice, but definitely not a rejection of the federated nature of ActivityPub — want to make that clear.

@caohuak@moon.lonewolf.zone @silverpill@mitra.social I see some :thinking_face:

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Perhaps guests can't see reactions... Will have go check.

@silverpill@mitra.social hmm are you sure? I see a few new emoji reactions to OP since I last posted...

@tom@tomkahe.com How did you send an emoji reaction from Mastodon?!

@informapirata ah! I realize that there may be a difference in understanding here.

I think when you are asking about moving topics to a remote category, you're intending to also share that discussion to the remote category, yes?

So, for example, you see a good discussion that comes in uncategorized, and you share it with a community on Lemmy.

Yes?

It makes sense, but I am not able to do that from a protocol point of view because there's inadequate federation vocabulary to achieve this.

So I could make movable, but it won't show up on Lemmy or Piefed unless that software supports whatever vocab I come up with.

So it's partly a technical limitation as well.

In general, moving topics between remote categories is disallowed because it's misrepresentation. You're limited to moving uncategorized topics to a local cid, topics between local cids (of course), and cross-posting topics to local categories.

There are some gaps in federation, as @informapirata states. I've been actively working toward finding and closing those gaps.

@informapirata @sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net @kichae@wanderingadventure.party

@informapirata indeed, I fixed a number of federation issues between NodeBB and Lemmy, in v4.14.0, and again since. I'd recommend updating to the latest stable version and running those federation tests again.