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1 month agoDiscourse has an ActivityPub plugin: https://discourse.org/plugins/activitypub
This plugin, for example, is enabled on SocialHub https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/about (it’s a forum for fediverse developers)
silverpill
Developer of ActivityPub-based micro-blogging and content subscription platform Mitra. I help maintain the FEP repository and write my own FEPs too. Currently working on ActivityPub Next.
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Cake day: November 6th, 2021
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I suggested the following definition for Fediverse Enhancement Proposals:
The Fediverse includes applications, services and communities using the ActivityPub protocol, its predecessors, and other historically related protocols that foster decentralized and diverse social media and culture.
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/544/files
Under this definition, Hubzilla and Webfinger are parts of Fediverse.
Unfortunately, this PR was bike-shedded into oblivion.
Yes, it is known as “nomadic identity”:
https://codeberg.org/ap-next/ap-next/src/branch/main/nomadpub.md
I think it is a useful service, because it helps small instances discover content. However, this idea is not new and another service of that kind, FediBuzz, has been operating for a long time.
How do you discover Lemmy communities? Federated categories in Discourse work in the same way, so a tool capable of discovering Lemmy communities should also be capable of discovering Discourse forums.