<![CDATA[Cursed hack to fix Mastodon-Threadiverse communication]]>If I post something to a remote community, Mastodon people reply directly to me, and it doesn’t make it to the remote community. 👎

If I snuck in a mention to the community (but not in text), Mastodon would prefill the community mention and it would propagate correctly. 👍

Tell me this is a bad idea…

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/d5aead24-909f-413c-abcf-c60bf0406731/cursed-hack-to-fix-mastodon-threadiverse-communicationRSS for NodeFri, 17 Apr 2026 05:39:08 GMTTue, 20 Jan 2026 03:09:19 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Cursed hack to fix Mastodon-Threadiverse communication on Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:26:17 GMT]]>NodeBB now sneaks in a mention to the category/community, and this gets pre-filled in the Mastodon composer.

I tested it against piefed’s crust instance, and the response from Mastodon to my post on NodeBB successfully made its way to crust for distribution <img class=“not-responsive emoji” src=“https://activitypub.space/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f389.png?v=1a14cd885f9” title=“🎉” />

@rimu@piefed.social

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]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://activitypub.space/post/1438https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://activitypub.space/post/1438Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:26:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cursed hack to fix Mastodon-Threadiverse communication on Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:45:38 GMT]]>@trwnh@mastodon.social oooh that’s interesting. I actually commented on the former.

But I am realizing now that NodeBB actually explicitly addresses quite a few people because we try to keep everybody in the loop.

Responding to a topic with hundreds of posts could mean a Note object with hundreds of individual users addressed in cc.

Perhaps it’s wiser to not assume “addressed? generate notification.”, and instead have configurable notifications based on thread/context participation.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://activitypub.space/post/988https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://activitypub.space/post/988Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:45:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cursed hack to fix Mastodon-Threadiverse communication on Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:38:50 GMT]]>@julian thanks, i hate it

i mean, i get it... but i hate it xD

i would rather mastodon fixed this in mastodon, but i wouldn't blame you if you did. mainly, mastodon should use to/cc/audience when composing a post, not tag.

we have https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/32242 which is the inverse (receiving, not posting). i just filed https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/37568 for the other direction (posting, not receiving)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/trwnh/statuses/115935958152211550https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/trwnh/statuses/115935958152211550Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:38:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cursed hack to fix Mastodon-Threadiverse communication on Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:32:30 GMT]]>Mm I believe the community is already addressed. Mastodon doesn’t prepopulate the mention in a reply unless it is explicitly in the AP object.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://activitypub.space/post/974https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://activitypub.space/post/974Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:32:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cursed hack to fix Mastodon-Threadiverse communication on Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:27:19 GMT]]>Have you tried putting things into the to or cc?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://piefed.social/comment/9769114https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://piefed.social/comment/9769114Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:27:19 GMT