Forums

Forums are channels that work similarly to normal internet forums or groups from other social networks. When you connect to a forum , you have three options for posting in the forum:

  • By wall-to-wall posting... to do this, you open the channel (the forum) and write your post by clicking on ‘Share’ at the very top of the forum stream. The post appears in the forum. for01 for02
  • By posting normally, with permission rights restricted to the forum channel. for03 for04 for05
  • With ‘@!-Mention’... that means you write in your post, which should end up in the forum, an exclamation mark, which is immediately followed by the channel name (forum name). Example: You want to post a post in the (fictitious) forum ‘Hubzillafans’. You create a new post (directly from the stream view or with the app ‘Write post’. Now mention the forum in the post text by using @!Hubzillafans. The post will appear in the forum after you send it. for06 for07

Participation in Hubzilla forums is also possible with a (streams) channel, a Forte channel, a Misskey (possibly also with a forkey), a Mitra and a Mastodon account.

Users of these services should note the following:

From Mastodon, Misskey and Mitra, you can only start new topics by setting the posting to ‘private’ and addressing the forum by normal mention (i.e. @<forum>@<hubzilla-hub>) (without the ‘!’). When replying to existing threads, nothing needs to be observed. Just comment.

Currently, it is not possible to start a thread via a wall-to-wapp post from (streams) or Forte. In this case, mentioning someone with ‘@!’ works well.

Whether Akkoma/Pleroma or GoToSocial also work, I can't say, as I don't have an account. It doesn't seem to work with Friendica at the moment (but I can only confirm this for the instance I use; it may work for others). Neither in one direction nor the other.