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Categories following Federated Accounts? (community.nodebb.org)
submitted 1 year ago by cwsmith@community.nodebb.org to c/activitypub@community.nodebb.org
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So I was wondering if there was a way for me to have a Category follow a federated account.

I can't seem to find the way to do it if that's possible.

But optimally the category would post a topic related to the new posts the followed account would post. Or something like that.

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[-] informapirata@community.nodebb.org 1 points 7 months ago

Hi julian , and sorry for trying to resurrect this (somewhat old) thread I happened to read. When you said to hamiller@forum.wedistribute.org

> "I should probably allow categories to track hashtag usage, even if it's local, given how hashtags work."

I thought this was now possible. In fact, I thought this was exactly what happens to your "General Discussion" category on Activitypub.space.

But then I looked in the settings of my federated NodeBB instance, and maybe it's not as I thought. So, I wonder (and ask you): how do you manage to aggregate "general discussion" threads? Is there an automatic way, or do you do it manually with "move thread"?

[-] julian@community.nodebb.org 2 points 7 months ago

informapirata indeed! This is configurable under the site-wide ActivityPub settings under "auto categorization rules".

For that site I have hashtags like "ActivityPub" and "fedimod" set up to automatically categorize discussions.

It only matches for discussions that don't already have a category of their own (so, microblog stuff.)

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