Feature Request - Please support ActivityPub for updates to threads

[DerekCaelin]

My co-op uses Loomio for governance and a Mastodon server for communication. It would be great if we could see the results of polls, updates on discussions, etc, showing up our feeds. Supporting ActivityPub in the way that Discourse is now doing would be very valuable for our community.

[robguthrie]

Hi Derek, Could you explain how the feature would be useful to you?

Do you know anyone interested in doing the development work?

[poVoq]

It would be similar to an RSS feed, but possible to follow from Mastodon etc. Discourse is indeed working on such limited ActivityPub support.

For now as a work-around I would suggest you just use a RSS feed to Mastodon bot that should already work with Loomio.

Edit: Although I can't figure out how to get the RSS/ATOM feed for the thread listing. For individual threads it seems to work by adding a .xml to the url.

[almereyda]

Indeed, with regards to pace-layering an organisations activity, it is useful for groups to bridge conversations across platforms.

An ActivityPub integration of Loomio would render it an equal participant in conversations that already today span multiple channels, as we see with the aforementioned Mastodon and Discourse, but also with WordPress, Pixelfed, Peertube, Owncast, WriteFreely and the likes. Offering an integration with ActivityPub allows to collect various dispersed conversation streams into more linear narratives and helps to structure web-wide conversation.

Currently, I'm seeing these stories present in this thread:

As a participant in a Loomio discussion,

I need to be informed about new interactions on a secondary ActivityPub channel,

in order to be able to react to the centrally held conversation from a peer actor on a federated platform and to keep an additional copy, say audit log of the conversation.

As a participant in a Loomio discussion,

I need to respond to new interactions via a secondary ActivityPub channel,

in order to participate in the centrally held conversation from a peer actor on a federated platform that keeps an additional copy of the conversation.

If you are unsure what else ActivityPub support could be good for, please find inspiration in the replies to this recent toot: https://cosocial.ca/@evan/112185826897209052