Taking the opportunity to pass some feedback regarding the AP plugin into this federated category..
A post by @jdp23:
Final thoughts re: FediCon 2025Yeah. 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.
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