Improve following of Discourse categories on the fediverse

Taking the opportunity to pass some feedback regarding the AP plugin into this federated category..

A post by @jdp23:

Final thoughts re: FediCon 2025

Yeah. I have no idea how to follow SocialHub discussions Mastodon account. I see this post because I'm following you, but it's disembodied -- I don't see the rest of the thread. And I can search for @community@socialhub.activity.rocks but its profile is empty.

Not only that, If I'm reading it over there, and see something I want to reply to from here, doing the "copy this URL" trick doesn't work. Does that mean I'm not in the fediverse??? Hard to know, but in any case I haven't yet figured out how I can participate in discussions there except by replying to somebody I follow.

@julian

And the follow-up by @devnull:

Final thoughts re: FediCon 2025

@jdp23@neuromatch.social I don't want to get overly technical about it, but that's due to fixable deficiencies in Discourse's AP integration.

I think you should be able to follow the @community@socialhub.activity.rocks actor, no?

The "copy URL" flow is especially prevalent on the fediverse, but Discourse doesn't support it (neither does Ghost, while I am talking about it.)

There is a different, related, discussion on the impact of forum federation on the notion of "community": https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/against-fragmentation-unifying-dev-discussions-with-forum-federation/5402

Thanks for summarizing this! To be clear, I don't know whether or not following @community@socialhub.activitypub.rocks from my Mastodon account would work -- I don't want these posts and replies cluttering up my home feed, just want to be able to I be able to read and participate in the conversations (so without following).

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