# ActivityPub Support: Phase 1 RFC

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-support-phase-1-rfc/132624
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** rfc
**Created:** [November 5, 2019, 8:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-support-phase-1-rfc/132624 "2019-11-05T08:38:55Z")
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### Author: ![rishabh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rishabh/32/179446_2.png) [@rishabh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rishabh)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2019, 9:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-support-phase-1-rfc/132624/2 "2019-11-05T09:15:31Z")

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Here are a couple of highlights from the older topics ⬇

> [@Federation support for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921/23):
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> Forum users following who-knows-what remote content should be an explicit non-goal, especially for the first versions. That’s not what Discourse is built to do; leave it to the generalist content viewers.
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> _Discourse following of federated content feeds should be implemented in a way similar to the RSS plugin._

> [@Federation support for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921/27):
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> I would say the best way to describe might be ‘an aggregator of all chosen sources’, perhaps a Topic List with the Latest combined from n sources.
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> It’s open to debate what happens when you click on a topic. Perhaps, if the source is a remote forum, _you are just redirected to the source forum immediately in a new tab._

Agreed, I think this is exactly how @Falco proposed that v1 could work.

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