Asklemmy

43757 readers

1092 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

What are the biggest difficulties when making ActivityPub software compatible/federated with each other? And why? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by whou@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

20 comments fedilink hide all child comments

There are some Fediverse services which are incompatible or don't work that perfectly with each other (e.g. Lemmy on Mastodon). So I was curious on why that could be a problem with ActivityPub compatible software in general. I mean, apparently just implementing ActivityPub may not be enough.

And if there are some Lemmy devs reading, what are some technical difficulties for Lemmy on that regard? Thank you for making this awesome piece of software btw!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (13 children)

You can follow the groups you post to, and then boost the posts you make that way

[–] lionel@lemmy.coupou.fr 1 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I can't even follow communities apparently, I can click the follow button but then when I come back to the community it's unchecked again.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

If your instance has authorised fetch turned on, that breaks the follow requests with lemmy. It took a long debug session before @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone discovered that!

[–] lionel@lemmy.coupou.fr 1 points 2 years ago

Oh thank you that did the trick

load more comments (8 replies)

load more comments (10 replies)