@djensen47 what CF SSL settings are you working with? I think when CF terminates your SSL WS could go wonky... We use CF and web sockets work okay.

Shaknunic here's the catch-22... If you want to stop AI crawlers, you can stop the good ones using robots.txt https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt If you want to stop the bad ones (which you probably do)... you can't They masquerade as legitimate users, and they have more funding behind them than you have time. Every time you try to block them someone on the other end will adapt. Unfortunately right now the only reliable solution is a hard challenge from CloudFlare for nearly all requests.

Hi all, just a note that ForumWG meets on the first Thursday of each month. The first Thursday of January is... 1 January... and as such I don't think we will be meeting this month See you all next month!

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.)

informapirata I am not certain whether Mobilizon publishes FEPs for how they use the Event activity. That would help, otherwise I would be reverse engineering their implementation, and that is not the easiest approach.

DigiDev not entirely sure. It's the expectation here that we download the photo and cache it locally?

[email protected] aside, we have our own thonking emoji too :thonking:

Hope everybody is having a great autumn — with temperatures slated to drop next week, I suppose it's almost time for winter 🥶 (and yes, I use em dashes. No LLM was used to write this travesty of a release post.) We've just dropped NodeBB v4.7.0 with some nice QoL improvements for sites federating via ActivityPub. Security Fixes Just a note that v4.6.3 contained a dependency upgrade to the validator package that fixes CVE-2025-56200. v4.7.0 contains this fix as well. New setting to control whether uploaded media is displayed as a topic thumbnail ️ Early changes to better handle ActivityPub content meant that uploaded post content was shown in the topic thumbnails set. This is now a configurable option in Settings > Uploads. Removal of the "federated description" We had a small postscript added by default when categories federated outward, and it even came with some default text about mentioning the category to create a topic. It didn't quite work out like we planned, and just looked plain weird when viewed through other threadiverse software (you don't mention a community to create a post in it). For now I've removed that feature. A link back to remote categories ️ Remote categories now have a button that allows you to navigate directly to the community itself — be it a Lemmy or Piefed community, Peertube channel, etc. Category boost fixes When a topic is moved between categories, the related categories will share (or "Announce" in AP parlance) OP. Likewise, it will be unshared by the other category is no longer belongs to. N.B. For devs — categories will also federate out Move and Remove activities for the appropriate contexts, which is going to be part of an upcoming FEP the ForumWG is working on. Improved handling of remote content in chats When receiving non-public content from remote sources (shown as a chat message), embedded images are now included. When sending chat messages outside of NodeBB, emoji are now included.