• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    Makes sense, it was already open source, just attaching to the activitypub protocol is a straightforward move.

    It’s everywhere too. Blogs, webcomics, special interest forums, and they will all potentially become new fediverse instances virtually by default. It’s pointing to a future where people join the fediverse without knowing what it is or seeking it out. They just want to join a forum to discuss their interests.

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        It could be an issue if the admin isn’t prepared for it. One of the good things about it is that the posts get cached wherever they’re accessed so it may actually reduce server load for a popular post.

        I guess if it is an issue the admins could always disable activitypub.

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    This is really cool, I wonder if it can have integration with the “threadiverse” such as with lemmy or kbin?

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      Eventually I imagine there will be adaptors for all the various types of post throughout the fediverse. I wonder if the differences will become largely superficial, with every activitypub system able to read all the others. It’s just a matter of maturing the ecosystem.

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        Hopefully but that is a tough nut to crack especially if things weren’t designed to be that way originally.

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      I wonder how a strictly linear thread structure is possible to transpose into a branching structure like lemmy

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    Discourse and Lemmy are both based around topics/communities so hopefully there will be better federation here. E.g. being able to follow a discourse topic from lemmy would be really cool.

    Hopefully they have done this in a way where Lemmy can federate with then easily.

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    That’s great! It’s really annoying for me how I have to make an account on every single discourse forum, and every time I get the welcome mail and the first comment badge, and so on. Also, the emails from all of the forums are annoying. This seems to fix all of that.