Hello from Hubzilla!

@julian@community.nodebb.org Yeah, being able to treat Mastodon and Lemmy/mbin/piefed like a bulletin board continues to feel like magic.

That instance runs Lemmy 1.0 which is still in alpha state, and the frontend is not compatible yet. So only the api works there.

I’m assuming Unicode in handles is not allowed? At least by Mastodon. This user is not able to have their content federated because the username is all Hebrew (I think?) characters!

I’m wondering how content on threadiverse is automatically assigned its community when received by the software (e.g. PieFed, Lemmy, Mbin). The answer I am expecting is “if the community is addressed (to, cc, audience), then it is slotted into that community”. However that causes issues for compatibility with microblogs… for example, silverpill@mitra.social recently authored a post that mentioned [swf@socialwebfoundation.org](https://community.nodebb.org/category/swf@socialwebfoundation.org) and it got slotted into that community on NodeBB, which isn’t correct since that group is private. Better practice would be to only trust the addressed community if it is Announce’d by the community directly, but would fall short if my instance does not receive the Announce (say, if nobody follows the community), in which case we’d fall back to “uncategorized”, which is where all microblog posts currently go. Then it’s neither correct nor incorrect, I suppose. I think this might be an issue where NodeBB tries to be too many things at once (microblog and threadiverse compatible).