# NIME on mastodon / the fediverse?

**URL:** <https://forum.nime.org/t/nime-on-mastodon-the-fediverse/1053>\
**Category:** Conference\
**Created:** [April 4, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/nime-on-mastodon-the-fediverse/1053 "2026-04-04T16:30:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![charlesmartin](https://forum.nime.org/user_avatar/forum.nime.org/charlesmartin/32/18_2.png) [@charlesmartin](https://forum.nime.org/u/charlesmartin)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2026, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.nime.org/t/nime-on-mastodon-the-fediverse/1053/11 "2026-06-20T08:41:08Z")

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was just a learning a bit about the activitypub plugin. I don’t see that any of these options are unnatural for discourse, it’s just how externally visible certain posts are.

I actually have now turned off federating replies on the announcements channel (which is the suggested config for an _announcements_ category).

I’ve created a category “[Amplify](https://forum.nime.org/t/about-the-amplify-category/1070)” which is denoted for socially amplified/shared posts about anything NIME related. Posts and replies there are federated.

I’m a bit hesitant to federate the conference category. Many of the posts in conference are actually support requests for things about attending NIME ([e.g.](https://forum.nime.org/t/midi-keyboard-borrowing-request/1065)) or authoring submissions. I don’t think the authors would necessarily expect the posts to show up on social feeds.

Discourse can also federate tags, so I could setup a “seen-at-nime” tag for discussions which for a thread or discussion during the conference which will end up federated from _any_ category.

_edit:_ follow up, I’ve enabled tags and federated _seen-at-nime_ so if you make a post with that tag, the post and all replies are visible at @seen-at-nime@forum.nime.org

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