So I decided to set up a nodeBB server on a VPS and am trying to get everything set up - and I am trying to get the fediverse working. I have a couple of questions for anyone who might have some experience.

  1. I am using cloudflare for the domain host, and it seems that I need to turn off bot fighting in order for the federation to work. Is this actually the case, or is there something I am doing wrong? If it is the case, is it that big of a deal? Will I get a lot of spam or bot traffic? Is there a custom rule I can make that night not be as good as bot fighting, but mitigate it slightly? (Without paying for additional cloudflare services) I’m not sure what I’m doing with cloudflare tbh, I’ve just been asking an LLM to help me correctly set it up.

  2. I think I have it working, but I followed my piefed account within my nodeBB profile to test it - and while my profile shows that I am following the piefed account, the actual indicator that shows number of people following remains at 0. (See photos. On mobile atm, but it’s the same on the desktop.)

  3. How does the federation actually work - I’m new to the fediverse, but I’m curious of how to actually use nodeBB with the fediverse. Is /world for people to simply use the forum as a hub to browse their other feeds? Is there also a way to set up each category posting to specific instances? What is the “standard” or “expected” way to integrate the forum into the fediverse - and can it be used to help bring new members to the forum?

Sorry if some of this is trivial, slowly trying to navigate and wrap my head around things. Hopefully someone on here has some experience with this?

  • UnfinishedProjects@piefed.zipOPEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Because you mentioned it might be a bug, I want to see if I am doing this correctly:

    It says pending, and I remember this was one of the issues when I had bot fight mode on in cloudflare and the following of user profiles wouldn’t work in /world.

    Is this the similar to the same issue?

    Is this how I would correctly be adding an incoming community to a “similar Communities” section?

    • julian@activitypub.space
      1·
      21 hours ago

      To add a remote community to your forum index, you’ll want to go to ACP > Manage > Categories

      Under the “Add Category” dropdown, you can select the option to add a remote category.

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      Then you can treat them like any other category (re-order, rename, etc.)

      The page you’re on now, the category synchronization, allows a category to follow another category, and automatically cross-post its posts to that category. It also kind of does what you want, but it’ll be more straightforward to add the remote community directly.