Chebucto Regional Softball Club

[julian](/user/julian%40community.nodebb.org) I have the same hesitations around having categories follow user accounts. Most users are not categories, and they do not post categorically. But some are. Satire accounts. Bot accounts. Institutional accounts, as you've called out. These are fairly safe bets, and it would be nice to allow admins the choice to roll the dice. But another paradigm to explore is *lists*, and there are a number of ways to represent those. /world could be reconfigured into /feed (stepping on the toes of the Feeds plugin), with users being able to create arbitrary feeds for themselves. Or lists could be represented as user-created pseudo-categories, given the UX of a forum category, but being personal to the user. They could be presented in /world exclusively, or appended to the bottom of the user's categories list. Forum-wide lists could be considered, creating global pseudo-categories defined by admins or moderators, with a slightly modified layout and/or visual language. This is really the transformation of a long standing medium. There's a huge possibility and design space here.

Just gotta say -- and I know I'm pulling OT a bit here -- but watching a Mastodon thread play out in a proper forum UI is kind of magical.

[@rynach@mstdn.io](https://community.nodebb.org/user/rynach%40mstdn.io) Lemmy isn't a forum, though. There's much more to being a forum than just having *topics*. Basic moderation tools (like post splitting, merging) etc. are lacking, and more advanced features that have been longtime standards on forums are totally absent. The UX is that of Reddit, and Reddit is as much a forum as Twitter is a blog. And LemmyBB hasn't been updated in iver 2 years. Does it even work with the current back end?

I tried to sync [@testing@chebucto.club](https://community.nodebb.org/user/testing%40chebucto.club) with @testing-ground.

[@julian](https://community.nodebb.org/user/julian) said in [Is ActivityPub too complicated?](/post/102887): > Let me look into nodebb-to-nodebb folllowing, that definitely should be working! Have you had a chance to verified that it is? Because I'm getting a never-ending Pending status when trying to sync to @testing-ground. Things federate fine, but without the syncing being established, they either don't get addressed to my instance, or are dumped into /world if I specifically reference someone on my site. And it's a little weird that they're not all ending up in /world, because I have an account that's following @testing-ground.

Hmm. It did not. [@mrjafo@chebucto.club](https://community.nodebb.org/user/mrjafo%40chebucto.club) test?

Confirmed not auto-syncing with @testing@chebucto.club. This mention should force the sync.

This topic should be auto-syncing with my own, but I don't think the handshake has completed successfully. Let's see if this shows up.

Pushed out just fine. Let's see the return.