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.
Hi julian , and sorry for trying to resurrect this (somewhat old) thread I happened to read. When you said to hamiller@forum.wedistribute.org
> “I should probably allow categories to track hashtag usage, even if it’s local, given how hashtags work.”
I thought this was now possible. In fact, I thought this was exactly what happens to your “General Discussion” category on Activitypub.space.
But then I looked in the settings of my federated NodeBB instance, and maybe it’s not as I thought. So, I wonder (and ask you): how do you manage to aggregate “general discussion” threads? Is there an automatic way, or do you do it manually with “move thread”?
informapirata indeed! This is configurable under the site-wide ActivityPub settings under “auto categorization rules”.
For that site I have hashtags like “ActivityPub” and “fedimod” set up to automatically categorize discussions.
It only matches for discussions that don’t already have a category of their own (so, microblog stuff.)
julian great!