frankm@linux-nerds.org the reason why I’m hesitant about this is because allowing a category to follow a user bakes in the assumption that everything the user posts is relevant.

If you’re following something like the linux foundation that’s a pretty safe bet for a Linux category, but what if you follow a user and they start sharing or posting about unrelated things, like what they had for breakfast, etc.?

That’s where things could get messy.

But, I absolutely love the idea of creating a category and making it sort of like a curated channel based around one idea.

This is the kind of cool stuff I want to see!

frankm@linux-nerds.org the reason why I’m hesitant about this is because allowing a category to follow a user bakes in the assumption that everything the user posts is relevant.

If you’re following something like the linux foundation that’s a pretty safe bet for a Linux category, but what if you follow a user and they start sharing or posting about unrelated things, like what they had for breakfast, etc.?

That’s where things could get messy.

But, I absolutely love the idea of creating a category and making it sort of like a curated channel based around one idea.

This is the kind of cool stuff I want to see!

frankm@linux-nerds.org the reason why I’m hesitant about this is because allowing a category to follow a user bakes in the assumption that everything the user posts is relevant.

If you’re following something like the linux foundation that’s a pretty safe bet for a Linux category, but what if you follow a user and they start sharing or posting about unrelated things, like what they had for breakfast, etc.?

That’s where things could get messy.

But, I absolutely love the idea of creating a category and making it sort of like a curated channel based around one idea.

This is the kind of cool stuff I want to see!

CWSmith not right now, no. A category can only follow other accounts that identify themselves as “Group”. This is to take advantage of synchronization logic that regular users don’t supply (and even then not all groups do either).

However I’ll keep this workflow in mind, it’s an interesting idea!

frankm@linux-nerds.org this is now done. Turns out I wasn’t actually stopping a category from following a user, so that didn’t need rolling back.

Ability for categories to follow regular users · Issue #13232 · NodeBB/NodeBB

This was technically already supported (as in, categories could follow regular user accounts), but it did not work consistently. Specifically, if a user was followed by a category, only the content shared by that user was automatically s...

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hamiller@forum.wedistribute.org using a hashtag is probably also something I should allow categories to follow, although that’s local-only to the instance because of how hashtags work.

Either way I didn’t want to restrict a valid use case

julian Are categories supposed to follow regular users from this screen in admin panel. Asking this because I tried putting a mastodon user profile link in the textbox but upon clicking on ‘Follow’ nothing happened. For threads, the request is pending(with some error, I guess) as you can see from the picture.

bh4-tech can you supply the URLs you tried to follow please?

julian https://www.threads.net/@khabydistas on threads and https://mastodon.social/@dansup on mastodon

bh4-tech might be not working because I did not expect urls. Can you try a handle like dansup@mastodon.social?

So I was wondering if there was a way for me to have a Category follow a federated account.

I can’t seem to find the way to do it if that’s possible.

But optimally the category would post a topic related to the new posts the followed account would post. Or something like that.

So I was wondering if there was a way for me to have a Category follow a federated account.

I can’t seem to find the way to do it if that’s possible.

But optimally the category would post a topic related to the new posts the followed account would post. Or something like that.

Hello

I am trying to follow some different ActivityPub group and users but

but I can’t quite understand why some are accepted while others remain “pending.”

For example, here I was able to follow the profile skariko@www.lealternative.net (who is an author of a Wordpress blog) and in fact his posts are posted in autonomous in the category correctly.

But if I try to follow another author of that blog like marcocalamari@www.lealternative.net or fediverso@www.lealternative.net it remains in “pending”.

I have also tried following two PeerTube users who both remain in “pending.”

Also after trying to unfollow one of the users it remains in “null.”

ska there is an issue with category sync with Lemmy, since they do not support categories following their communities.

Allow `Group` type to subscribe to communities · Issue #5354 · LemmyNet/lemmy

Requirements Is this a feature request? For questions or discussions use https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support Did you check to see if this issue already exists? Is this only a feature request? Do not put multiple feature requests in one issu...

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I’ll have to take a closer look at Peertube.

Are you able to follow those users using your local account, not via the ACP?