How to follow and participate in discussions here from your Fediverse and ATmosphere accounts
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The magic of decentralized social networks means that even though the Nexus of Discussions is running NodeBB software, you can follow and participate in discussions here from accounts on GoToSocial, Mastodon, Glitch, Piefed and other Fediverse platforms – and thanks to the magic of bridging, also from Bluesky. Blacksky, and other ATmosphere apps. Hooray!
But, it’s not always as straightforward as it could be, so here’s a quick how-to guide.
And, no matter what platform you’re participating from, please make sure you’re aligned with the community guidelines!
Note: I’ve done my best to test out these instructions, but there may still be some mistakes or situations where they don’t work. Feedback welcome, either here or at my Mastodon account at thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange or bluesky account @thenexusofprivacy.net
From the Fediverse
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If you see a post from here in your feed on GoToSocial, Mastodon, Glitch, Piefed or another Fediverse platform, you should be able to interact with it just like any other post. (At least in theory – If you run into problems, please let me know.)
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Replies to threads here are public by default, and may wind up indexed by search engines.
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If you’ve opted in to Bridgy Fed, replies to threads here are generally likely be bridged to Bluesky, unless you’re replying to somebody who hasn’t opted in.
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If you’re looking at a page on discussions.thenexus.today and want to reply, like, or boost it, the usual trick of copying the link from the address bar in the browser into your search box doesn’t always work. Instead, you need to copy the link from the post’s timestamp.
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on a Mac, control-click on the timestamp, and then select “Copy link to post” from the menu
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on an iPhone, press the timestamp, and then select Copy Link from the menu.
- on Linux, Windows, or Android … hmm not sure, let me know and I’ll update the post.
Here’s what it looks like on a Mac
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to follow an account here, you can search for it in the usual way (jon’s account for example is [jon](https://discussions.thenexus.today/user/jon)@discussions.thenexus.today) and then follow it as you would any other account
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to follow a category here, you can either search for the “category actor” (for example @public@discussions.thenexus.today for all public posts), or just go to the category page and copy the link from the address bar
From Bluesky and the ATmosphere
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Replies from Bluesky, Blacksy, and other ATmosphere apps are only federated here if you’ve opted in to Bridgy Fed, which connects Fediverse sites to Bluesky. An important caveat here is that opting in to Bridgy Fed makes all your Bluesky posts available in the Fediverse as well!
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you can follow an account here by following its bridged account. The handle is @[account name].discussions.thenexus.today.ap.brid.gy
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as far as I know, it isn’t yet possible to follow a category from the ATmosphere
From Threads
- discussions.thenexus.today does not federate with Threads, so hopefully there’s no way to participate in discussions from there. If you do find a way, please let me know, because that means there’s a bug somewhere!
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The magic of decentralized social networks means that even though the Nexus of Discussions is running NodeBB software, you can follow and participate in discussions here from accounts on GoToSocial, Mastodon, Glitch, Piefed and other Fediverse platforms – and thanks to the magic of bridging, also from Bluesky. Blacksky, and other ATmosphere apps. Hooray!
But, it’s not always as straightforward as it could be, so here’s a quick how-to guide.
And, no matter what platform you’re participating from, please make sure you’re aligned with the community guidelines!
Note: I’ve done my best to test out these instructions, but there may still be some mistakes or situations where they don’t work. Feedback welcome, either here or at my Mastodon account at thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange or bluesky account @thenexusofprivacy.net
From the Fediverse
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If you see a post from here in your feed on GoToSocial, Mastodon, Glitch, Piefed or another Fediverse platform, you should be able to interact with it just like any other post. (At least in theory – If you run into problems, please let me know.)
-
Replies to threads here are public by default, and may wind up indexed by search engines.
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If you’ve opted in to Bridgy Fed, replies to threads here are generally likely be bridged to Bluesky, unless you’re replying to somebody who hasn’t opted in.
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If you’re looking at a page on discussions.thenexus.today and want to reply, like, or boost it, the usual trick of copying the link from the address bar in the browser into your search box doesn’t always work. Instead, you need to copy the link from the post’s timestamp.
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on a Mac, control-click on the timestamp, and then select “Copy link to post” from the menu
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on an iPhone, press the timestamp, and then select Copy Link from the menu.
- on Linux, Windows, or Android … hmm not sure, let me know and I’ll update the post.
Here’s what it looks like on a Mac
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to follow an account here, you can search for it in the usual way (jon’s account for example is [jon](https://discussions.thenexus.today/user/jon)@discussions.thenexus.today) and then follow it as you would any other account
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to follow a category here, you can either search for the “category actor” (for example @public@discussions.thenexus.today for all public posts), or just go to the category page and copy the link from the address bar
From Bluesky and the ATmosphere
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Replies from Bluesky, Blacksy, and other ATmosphere apps are only federated here if you’ve opted in to Bridgy Fed, which connects Fediverse sites to Bluesky. An important caveat here is that opting in to Bridgy Fed makes all your Bluesky posts available in the Fediverse as well!
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you can follow an account here by following its bridged account. The handle is @[account name].discussions.thenexus.today.ap.brid.gy
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as far as I know, it isn’t yet possible to follow a category from the ATmosphere
From Threads
- discussions.thenexus.today does not federate with Threads, so hopefully there’s no way to participate in discussions from there. If you do find a way, please let me know, because that means there’s a bug somewhere!
Another way you can load discussions here into Fediverse is to copy the address bar, but add a post index to the end.
For example,
/topic/123might not load, but/topic/123/1would, since it’s a pointer to the first post. -
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julian@community.nodebb.org cool, thanks, that’s a lot easier. I updated the post, and moved the more complicated description to a reply.
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If you’re trying to search for a post here (or on any other federated NodeBB forum) and the trick of adding a /1 at the end of a link doesn’t work for some reason, another option is you need to copy the link from the post’s timestamp – or the timestamp in any comment.
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on a Mac, control-click on the timestamp, and then select “Copy link to post” from the menu
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on an iPhone, press the timestamp, and then select Copy Link from the menu.
- on Linux, Windows, or Android … hmm not sure, let me know and I’ll update the post.
Here’s what it looks like on a Mac
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Hmm if you’re seeing this thread on Mastodon, the edits I made to the first post don’t seem to have propagated. Awkward!
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Hmm if you’re seeing this thread on Mastodon, the edits I made to the first post don’t seem to have propagated. Awkward!
Yeah that’s a tricky one, because edits propagate only to those who have interacted with the post, and I’m not able to send it to boost recipients or those who load the post directly.
