I found this plugin - ActivityPub Plugin - Plugin - Discourse Meta - which if installed would allow posts regarding Yunohost on the Forum.Yunohost.org to be discoverable and sharable on AcitvityPub based social media servers like Mastoodon, Friendica etc. It would mean that like getting emails people could monitor the forum from their preferred ActivityPub client. I think it would be a good idea to gain some exposure for Yunohost from the many users of Mastodon and friendica.
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I like this idea too but I wonder if it would become much heavier to moderate. Because activitypub could bring other forms of spam
If it’s too much job for the yuno people I’d rather have them focus on other areas than fedi spam
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i think a good compromise could be some activitypub share button. then people could share a post here to invite others to come and post.
Hi there.
new here, about to initialize (probably) myself in testing Yunohost, and stumbled into this because of searching content about friendica.
Just messaged today the yunohost profile on mastodon in private about the option to host a yunohost community helpers forum page on the friendica instance I host. The instance only has forum pages and doesn’t pretend to host personal profiles at all.
The friendica community does something like that on:
https://forum.friendi.ca/profile/helpers
They actually have other profile for"admins", “developers” “news” to.
https://forum.friendi.ca/directory
I consider that such a page wouldn’t compromise anyone in particular, would promote Yunohost and give it “more exposure” in the community and create a place where lot’s of linux people can help each other out on minor issues and questions surrounding Yunohost.
There is not supposed to be lot’s of moderation to be done. I consider that I can have an eye on that, and it can be restricted or shut down in any given moment. Also, mayor issues not only simply can be referred to over here and github, some specific instructions in profile and pinned posts can address how standard support is organized and link to the respective channels. Of course admin access for Yunohost admin(s) is no problem. friendica allows “delegation” so general administration/moderation can be handled by me and the yunohost team holds the “general” admin key for the profile itself.
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I’m not against the idea above … but it might fragment the Yunohost conversations.
I think that allowing content from this forum to federate would be more useful.
I’ve looked at the ActivityPub plug in and it can be configured so new posts (not comments) are federated and responses and comments from Mastodon, Friendica etc are not copied back into the forum (So basically its a way to monitor new posts on the forum from your ActivityPub Account and easily share them.
I think this is a good starting poing/comprimise as it means that engagement in the forum isn’t effected but those that use the forum can use ActivityPub to stay engaged and people on Mastodon , Friendica can get some exposure to Yunohost.
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I created a post on friendicas helpers forum on the idea in general, as you may find here:
As stated over their in my opinion the very forum.friendi.ca server is actually the ideal place for hosting info and helpers groups in the fedi.
I guess in any case it would be a matter of reaching out to them.
As stated in the initial comment here, of course tupambae.org “is at the communities service too”.
Yeah I don’t think that you need to have a profile on a separate server to achieve this. The Discourse forum can itself act as an ActivtyPub server and syndicate directly from it to subscribed accounts.
Indeed the idea of having one central place for info and helper groups is contrary to the idea of the fediverse.
I think Discourse have kind of dealt with that - because the posts are able to be federated back out to other consumers but posts are not copied back into the forum. So the forum can be monitored and discussed outside the forum but posts from ActivityPub don’t need to be moderated in the forum. - Its basically like being able to subscribe to a RSS feed of the discussion giving it visability but only forum users could respond in the forum.
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