I found this instance https://thefedi.forum/world (found here https://nodebb.fediverse.observer/list )

To follow a community, copy the ID of the Fediverse community, and on nodeBB click the magnifying glass on the right side to search and paste in the community ID in there (and delete the exclamation mark, like television@piefed.social)

change the dropdown to search “in categories” and it should show up like this https://thefedi.forum/search?in=categories&amp%3Bterm=television%40piefed.social

Open the community, click “Not Watching” to choose either “Watching” or “Tracking” and then new posts/comments will be synchronized in, and you should be able to join in on the discussions!

  • julian@activitypub.space
    9·
    2 months ago

    @die4ever@thefedi.forum hi from another NodeBB! (god this will never get old)

    NodeBB maintainer here. Glad to hear you’re enjoying the software! I really tried to make it so that federation is rather seamless. There’s a lot of work to be done with respect to discovery, so it’ll only get better over time 🙂

    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      It looks like it works pretty well! I did notice pasting in Lemmy community IDs (with ! in the front) doesn’t work correctly and you have to manually delete the ! and switch the search to categories