julian

occultist8128@infosec.pub “followers only” is a concept that is Mastodon specific, and Pixelfed supports it.

There’s nothing to change at the protocol level itself.

Sending the reply to OP in your example would be a betrayal of the visibility of followers only… which is kind of silly but technically correct.

Better would be followers + participants, but that’s up to the individual implementors to adopt.

pumpkindrama@reddthat.com NodeBB supports topic based following, because it’s a forum and that’s literally how it was done way back then.

You can follow tags as well.

Loops is newly funded, so that round is still active. I still wouldn’t get hype about it until it happens though! 😉

Unfortunately it actually isn’t. NodeBB (me!) and Discourse are the only two forums that federate.

NodeBB has full two-way support with discovery features, Discourse is mostly broadcast-style (i.e. you can’t find Lemmy posts from Discourse)