# Federation support for Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed
**Created:** [June 28, 2018, 5:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921 "2018-06-28T05:32:10Z")
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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921/23 "2019-08-28T03:06:40Z")

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I think publishing of Discourse topics for remote follow is what should be aimed for.

> [@merefield](#):
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> ability to host remote updates

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.

Discourse following of federated content feeds should be implemented in a way similar to the RSS plugin.

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