ActivityPub Plugin

[JammyDodger]

@Olle11

How do i hide Activityhub/Federation from the sidebar?

I think the ones added by plugins are still a little inflexible when it comes to customising the sidebar. I think this is still the advised way of doing it:

@Moin

Handling plugin-added links

Plugin-added links cannot be directly customized. To modify these links:

1. Create a replacement link with your desired customizations
2. Hide the original plugin link

Some links can be hidden in the settings of the plugin. For instance, the upcoming events link can be hidden by disabling the sidebar_show_upcoming_events setting.
If no setting exists to hide the link, you can use CSS to remove it. For example, the following CSS snippet, originally shared in this topic, hides the link added by the Docs plugin:

.sidebar-section-wrapper {
  li[data-list-item-name=docs] {
    display: none !important;
  }
}

[Olle11]

Thank you this worked for me

[Olle11]

For some reason it still appears in the sidebar on mobile, any clue?

Best regards
Olle

[JammyDodger]

Ah, this looks like it may have changed for mobile based on the new way ‘more’ is displayed.

I think this should do it for ‘Federation’:

.sidebar-more-section-content { 
    li[data-list-item-name=activity-pub-about] { 
        display: none !important; 
    }   
}

[Olle11]

Great thank you!

[Moin]

I think you can also use

.sidebar-section-link-wrapper[data-list-item-name="activity-pub-about"] {
         display: none;
      }

to hide the link on mobile and desktop

[patrickemin]

Hello, I installed the plugin, which was very easy, even I did not know either Mastodon or the plugin. Everything works well except for one small detail that I’ll explain here.

When I personally publish a topic as an administrator in the categories that are subsequently published on Mastodon, there is no problem. However, today, one of my users who had never posted on my forum before published a post in one of the categories. Naturally, this post went into the approval queue. I approved it, and the post was published in the category. However, it was never picked up by ActivityPub and published on Mastodon as I believe it should have been.

I considered two potential issues: first, this user is not an administrator—could that be the problem? Second, perhaps the issue stems from the fact that this post first went through a moderation queue before being approved by me. Could this have prevented it from being published on Mastodon? What do you think?

I also have a related question: uncertain about what was happening, I published a test post myself as an administrator, and there was no problem. After five minutes, it was posted on Mastodon, but I was unable to delete it from Mastodon. I suppose this is because it didn’t go to my main account but to an account linked to one of the actors. It seems impossible for me to control these actor-linked accounts on Mastodon, but that is more of a Mastodon-specific question.

Thanks for your attention.

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

@patrickemin

Naturally, this post went into the approval queue.

I reckon this comes from same ground that any topics, that aren’t kind of organic, written in that category and published in normal way, don’t be federated.

You can do it manually, though.

Same happens with WordPress plugin or if a topic is published with the timer. Or moved from non-federated category to federated one.

I think that is more lacking a feature than a bug per se. ActivityPub isn’t totally ready yet.

@patrickemin

I was unable to delete it from Mastodon

You can remove a message from your sight, or from local timeline, if you are an admin of that instance.

But you can’t ever delete a message that isn’t yours. You must be the OP in the original instance to delete — and even then it is pure luck if all others in the Fediverse will follow that deletion request.

So you have to delete it from your forum and I’m not sure if that deletion will be federated too from Discourse. But you should be able to un-federate in Discourse. Anyway… it isn’t that big question because after few minutes no one sees such posting because of high traffic from Fediverse

[patrickemin]

Thanks for your answers, not a big deal overall, but I wanted to exclude a possible wrong manipulation on my side.

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

Hey @patrickemin, thanks for trying out the plugin and I’m glad it’s working for you, and that it makes sense. That’s nice to hear

@patrickemin

Naturally, this post went into the approval queue. I approved it, and the post was published in the category. However, it was never picked up by ActivityPub and published on Mastodon as I believe it should have been.

Yes, this is expected behaviour. We don’t auto-publish posts on approval. As @Jagster notes, you can use the activity pub topic actions to manually publish a topic and its posts after approval. We may add a setting to auto-publish posts after approval. Some folks may still want to do that manually as people use the approval queue for different reasons.

@patrickemin

I also have a related question: uncertain about what was happening, I published a test post myself as an administrator, and there was no problem. After five minutes, it was posted on Mastodon, but I was unable to delete it from Mastodon. I suppose this is because it didn’t go to my main account but to an account linked to one of the actors. It seems impossible for me to control these actor-linked accounts on Mastodon, but that is more of a Mastodon-specific question.

Yes, this is also expected. When a post is federated, the “actor” that controls it is the actor that federated it. You won’t be able to delete it using your mastodon account. You need to delete it on Discourse itself. We then tell mastodon to delete it there too.