Incoming synchronization between Fediverse publications and Discourse category?

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We currently have a good connection between publications inside of a discourse category and the publication on the Fediverse, thanks to the great work of @angus with the ActivityPub Plugin Moreover, there is a already a good link between publication in the WordPress CMS and Discourse with the WP Discourse plugin from WP Discourse – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

Still missing (or maybe I did not see this functionality yet?) is a connection between a publication appearing first on the Fediverse and a (possibly internal) Discourse category. This would be similar to the current functionality with custom incoming email addresses based on sub-addressing (RFC 5233 - Sieve Email Filtering: Subaddress Extension):

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I heard (but I dont know) that https://nodebb.org/ already has support for “bi-directional” interaction between their forum instance and the Fediverse …

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Hey @Thomas_Rother, this already exists. If you enable “Full Topic” publication on an actor then it will accept:

  • Replies to existing topics from any actor.
  • New topics from actors the actor is following.

Yes, NodeBB and Discourse worked closely together to develop this functionality for forums through the W3C and other fora, and helped to create new standards in the process :slight_smile:

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Hey Angus, great that this is already implemented and thanks for closing my knowledge gap :grin: