This is why the forums don’t syndicate to Mastodon

This is why the forums don’t syndicate to Mastodon

Twice, in the past, I have thought it would be nice if everyone’s stuff made it out onto social media. Both times, I have enabled syndicating forum topics. Both times it went badly.

We ended up syndicating spam that is easy to remove here, but hangs about in FediSpace forever.

A bit like this:

I’m sure there must be a way to revoke that stuff, but I’m not sure what that way is. So, until we can undo spam that gets syndicated, forum stuff will remain local only. If someone can help me figure out how to unspam social media, I think it would be nicer to take a poll to see if our active members even want our forums appearing on social media.

#ActivityPub #fedi #forum #plans

@devs it's not only spam, but also that #Forums don't map 1-to-1 to #Microblogging platforms, and how to best integrate both of these domains well in the interoperable #fediverse, is still an ongoing effort.

I'd pose that #SocialHub #ActivityPub community has not benefitted from their long-term desire to become fully #fedi integrated, because of these #challenges.

But this forum exists exactly for that kind of experiments, to find what works and learn from it. Things are improving, but slowly.

I'd say that forums are definitely welcome and needed on the Fediverse, and can coexist well with microblog platforms like Mastodon.

ActivityPub.Space is proof of that!

We straddle both the microblogs and threaded discussions.

Spam is taken care of just like everywhere else: Delete activities.