@trwnh@mastodon.social given that one way a context collection is discovered is via reference via a collection member itself, that's one way to define it. Admittedly, direct access to a context collection is also a legitimate use case (e.g. a NodeBB topic URL itself is the context collection), so something more explicit might be required.

I have been following a Lemmy community from Firefish and I only get original posts, you can see this behaviour here: https://electricrequiem.com/@comradeship@lemmygrad.ml However Firefish has had problems with following Lemmy communities so this may not be the default behaviour from Mastodon. Still, I do think that boosting all replies is not ideal, especially for busy forums. If a topic gets say 50 replies, it can really flood your timeline. Also personally I have set up my Firefish account to only show me original posts (and boosts), to have a cleaner and more compact timeline. With a forum account that boosts everything, you can't filter replies, they all end up in your timeline. So my suggestion was to perhaps create two accounts for following a forum, one than boosts everything and one that boosts only original posts. This way users would get a choice, and if they find that following everything makes their timeline too busy, they can choose to get only original posts, instead of unfollowing the forum completely.

@squinky@teh.entar.net hmm, you should be able to, given it's an unauthenticated resource... But then again maybe some sites require a signed request.

NodeBB is gearing up for a major release this month that brings full two way federation and content discoverability to forums as well! We've been working on it all last year! @activitypub

Uups, next try https://nrw.social/deck/@FrankM/113606591981853331