# 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: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921/78 "2022-11-28T22:03:56Z")

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My general concern here is that the ideas are generally enormous, it is super hard to break them down into small pieces.

I do find the idea of federating interesting. A possible concrete implementation could be:

- Allow Discourse admins to federate a category.
- Users on mastodon can then follow it, eg follow: `announcements@meta.discourse.org`
- When new announcement topics are created, a new post is federated with an excerpts and link to the original.
- As users respond on discourse, new replies are federated and attributed (as replies to original topic)
- When someone on the fediverse replies, a “shadow” post is made on the topic attributed to the poster on mastodon.

Something like that is at least small enough to properly fit in my head.

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