Are Flipboard collections(?) AP groups?
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Hey @mike@flipboard.social, are Flipboard collections (or are they magazines? I forget the term!) federating out as
as:Group? I'm wondering whether it would be possible for NodeBB to load them in as categories, and be able to browse them natively...I'm just not able to easily find them in the Flipboard UI right now, but I'm relatively new at using the app
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It looks like they are indeed AP groups: https://community.nodebb.org/category/gear-engadget@flipboard.com
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It looks like they are indeed AP groups: https://community.nodebb.org/category/gear-engadget@flipboard.com
@AltCode aww, heck yeah!
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(streams) recognises them as group actors in its directory AFAIR. So there has to be some truth in that.
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@julian
Magazines are represented as an #ActivityPub Group. The magazine actor boosts the original post from the profile into the group. -
@julian
Magazines are represented as an #ActivityPub Group. The magazine actor boosts the original post from the profile into the group.Thanks for the confirmation @jsonculverhouse@flipboard.social, any chance we could have the post list the magazine as a recipient, so that a backreference is established?
See: https://community.nodebb.org/post/104013
@mike@flipboard.social mentioned you, but a typo got in the way
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@julian Something seems to be wrong. I've been following a few Flipboard magazines from NodeBB, but it seems like they are not correctly federating with the 4.3.0 beta.
Take a look at [Tech News by @theverge@flipboard.com](https://community.nodebb.org/category/tech-news-theverge@flipboard.com), I've been tracking this remote category for almost a month now, but here on NodeBB, it is still empty. Meanwhile, on Mastodon I see new posts daily.
For the record, this is what an activity created by the group actor looks like:
{ "@context":[ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "https://w3id.org/security/v1", { "Hashtag":"as:Hashtag", "toot":"http://joinmastodon.org/ns#", "discoverable":"toot:discoverable", "indexable":"toot:indexable", "alsoKnownAs":{ "@id":"as:alsoKnownAs", "@type":"@id" } } ], "type":"Announce", "id":"https://flipboard.com/magazines/cPVtLWiDRgi0_eWFp_CJVA:m:43611565/activity/DpM9mVh1Qk2oScowFAN8DA:a:43611565", "actor":"https://flipboard.com/magazines/cPVtLWiDRgi0_eWFp_CJVA:m:43611565", "published":"2025-04-22T09:51:50Z", "to":[ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc":[ "https://flipboard.com/users/theverge", "https://flipboard.com/magazines/cPVtLWiDRgi0_eWFp_CJVA:m:43611565/followers" ], "object":"https://flipboard.com/users/theverge/statuses/DpM9mVh1Qk2oScowFAN8DA:a:43611565" } -
@julian Something seems to be wrong. I've been following a few Flipboard magazines from NodeBB, but it seems like they are not correctly federating with the 4.3.0 beta.
Take a look at [Tech News by @theverge@flipboard.com](https://community.nodebb.org/category/tech-news-theverge@flipboard.com), I've been tracking this remote category for almost a month now, but here on NodeBB, it is still empty. Meanwhile, on Mastodon I see new posts daily.
For the record, this is what an activity created by the group actor looks like:
{ "@context":[ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "https://w3id.org/security/v1", { "Hashtag":"as:Hashtag", "toot":"http://joinmastodon.org/ns#", "discoverable":"toot:discoverable", "indexable":"toot:indexable", "alsoKnownAs":{ "@id":"as:alsoKnownAs", "@type":"@id" } } ], "type":"Announce", "id":"https://flipboard.com/magazines/cPVtLWiDRgi0_eWFp_CJVA:m:43611565/activity/DpM9mVh1Qk2oScowFAN8DA:a:43611565", "actor":"https://flipboard.com/magazines/cPVtLWiDRgi0_eWFp_CJVA:m:43611565", "published":"2025-04-22T09:51:50Z", "to":[ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc":[ "https://flipboard.com/users/theverge", "https://flipboard.com/magazines/cPVtLWiDRgi0_eWFp_CJVA:m:43611565/followers" ], "object":"https://flipboard.com/users/theverge/statuses/DpM9mVh1Qk2oScowFAN8DA:a:43611565" }@AltCode I think it's just Flipboard, right?
It might be because of the issue mentioned upthread where items shared by those groups don't have a back reference to the itself so it isn't slotted in it.
They might all just be uncategorized instead. Can you find those items when you search their url or id in the NodeBB search bar?
