Discourse now supports ActivityPub as a method of accessing posts, and we’re testing this out with the General > News category and our announcements. You’ll be able to find out about Mastodon posts and even reply to posts from Mastodon and they’ll show up here!

Hint: If you have a Mastodon account, link it to your forum account at https://discuss.privacyguides.net/my/preferences/activity-pub. That way if you reply or like a post on Mastodon, it will perform the reply/like here with your forum account :wink:

See https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/about for details.

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I'm going to try it with Mastodon later today. I'm not sure what the support with Lemmy will be like, but clicking on this link seems to at least load the community name / icon: !news@discuss.privacyguides.net

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[–] Hamiller@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 week ago

I think Lemmy only shows the posts in a community when at least one user has joined from their own instance.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hopefully they're more attentive to this than they are for their Lemmy instance (lemmy.one).

[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

certainly not something i'm willing to risk. defederated them now.

the stuff is still up on lemmy.one, months from the original report, with zero indication that they care about it in the slightest.

i'm tempted to add their domains to our automod (only removal), but i'll discuss this in our team before doing so.

even if there are multiple people involved in the operation of this discourse forum, even this announcement is by jonah, who as far as i can tell is the head of these projects and also owner of the associated US companies. if this was something ran by a different team and they'd be able to separate themselves from jonah's (in)actions then it might be a different story, but as it is right now, it seems that all these services related to PrivacyGuides are operated by the same entity.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I didnt know it was the same admin. Just looked into it and you should block mstdn.party too if you're not already.

[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

already did. it's the same person running the infrastructure, although moderation of mstdn.party and mstdn.plus is handled by someone else.

we've since been in contact with the person running these services and the material has been taken down on lemmy.one, as well as lemmy.one closing down in three months.

we're still discussing in our team how we will deal with this going forward and will be posting a new announcement about this in the coming days.

you can read https://lemmy.world/post/29550945 for our previous writeup about this.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Thank you for the info and transparency.