# 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") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield) #### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 7:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921/7 "2018-06-28T07:20:42Z")
Discussed at length before, allow me (and note these have embedded related topics too, enjoy 🙂 ) > [@Revitalizing the Discourse Hub](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revitalizing-the-discourse-hub/15029): > > The original basic idea of the Discourse Hub have a reserved @username across all Discourse instances, so when someone sees @username on any Discourse forum, they’ll know it is (probably) you! … seems like kind of a bad idea in retrospect. Why? Well, if you run your own Discourse, and your name is @david, you probably want to be called @david, even if some other David reserved the name in Feburary 2013 here on meta. It is your community, after all, who are we to tell you that you can’t use y… > [@What would it take to replace Facebook with Discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-would-it-take-to-replace-facebook-with-discourse/84060): > > I’m genuinely looking to dump Facebook and I’m sure I’m not alone (!!!) Discourse is clearly a great much better alternative to Facebook & Yahoo Groups. (and others) But how about modifying it to support befriending and personal feeds with associated privacy control? Would this be a total rewrite? Am I totally off here? I guess this might not scale as sign-ups iterated recursively? You could quickly chew up server capacity and have to migrate to bigger and bigger machines? If not Discours… > [@Tools to "aggregate" many Discourse forums?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tools-to-aggregate-many-discourse-forums/81899): > > The good news: Discourse is popular, perhaps the [fastest-growing](https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/forum-software) forum software out there. The bad news: I now have a ton of Discourse forums that I need to keep tabs on, on a most-daily basis. Does anyone else struggle with this information management challenge? At one point there was a working [Chrome extension called “Discourse Forum Notifications”](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/discourse-forum-notificat/okmkhbdimfnmdhpclfbamachjcpcgcmi) that helped (a little bit), but it was last updated 13 months ago, and doesn’t seem to work any more. And the “official” Android app allo… [http://opensym.lero.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/a8-silva.pdf](http://opensym.lero.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/a8-silva.pdf) > **[ActivityPub - one protocol to rule them all? - Sky Schubert](https://overengineer.dev/blog/2018/02/01/activitypub-one-protocol-to-rule-them-all/)** > > Random thoughts, articles and projects by a chronic overengineer. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921)._