I’m curious about the possibility of using a NodeBB account as my main account for accessing and interacting with the fediverse.

One strength with forums I see is that they are more community- and interest oriented. They often have a clearer purpose.

My engagements with the world are different. I have many interests and different engagements. My “World” category reflects that.

I don’t want to move things from World into the forum that hosts my account if that conversation doesn’t fit the focus of the forum.

But I do want to structure my world more, if I want to use my NodeBB account as my main handle on the fediverse.

I can’t organize World right now.

Could I make a group on the forum with only me as member and then populate threads in different categories? I guess so. It would be a lot of categorizing.

More ideal would be if I could subscribe to categories on other NodeBB forums and then those categories would show even on my own instance - but just for me! Other folks on my instance haven’t asked for that.

Say I’m interested in the @activitypub@community.nodebb.org category and would like to follow all new topics. I can subscribe to that category and get it into my world. A better solution would be that the category is there in my personal interface on my instance to organize the topics for me. Just like they do on the original instance where the category lives.

I’m writing this topic from the “Uncategorized” category of our own NodeBB forum. It’s an example of me not knowing how I can start conversations on other NodeBB forums without having to create a new account on that forum (which then defeats the federation feature) or create that topic from an unrelated category on our own forum, which would then become spam.