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I need this too. Ok, my idea is to create an category. Example "Linux". Now i follow some people, example @linuxfoundation@social.lfx.dev And then all Posts will show in my category. Please add this.
@frankm@linux-nerds.org the reason why I'm hesitant about this is because allowing a category to follow a user bakes in the assumption that everything the user posts is relevant.
If you're following something like the linux foundation that's a pretty safe bet for a Linux category, but what if you follow a user and they start sharing or posting about unrelated things, like what they had for breakfast, etc.?
That's where things could get messy.
But, I absolutely love :heart: the idea of creating a category and making it sort of like a curated channel based around one idea.
This is the kind of cool stuff I want to see!
@frankm@linux-nerds.org this is now done. Turns out I wasn't actually stopping a category from following a user, so that didn't need rolling back.
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/13232
@hamiller@forum.wedistribute.org using a hashtag is probably also something I should allow categories to follow, although that's local-only to the instance because of how hashtags work.
Either way I didn't want to restrict a valid use case :)
@julian Are categories supposed to follow regular users from this
screen in admin panel. Asking this because I tried putting a mastodon user profile link in the textbox but upon clicking on 'Follow' nothing happened. For threads, the request is pending(with some error, I guess) as you can see from the picture.
@bh4-tech can you supply the URLs you tried to follow please?
@julian https://www.threads.net/@khabydistas on threads and https://mastodon.social/@dansup on mastodon
@bh4-tech might be not working because I did not expect urls. Can you try a handle like
dansup@mastodon.social?@julian Yeah that worked for mastodon, but not for threads. Guess that's some problem on thread's side and not nodebb.
However, the remote media preview problem still remains https://community.nodebb.org/post/103782 . Guess you will need to cache remote media like misskey.