My replies via Mastodon to Lemmy posts don’t get distributed as expected. For example:
- Original post: https://lemmy.ml/post/11552444
- A reply via Lemmy: https://ttrpg.network/comment/4965852
- My reply to that: https://hachyderm.io/@otl/111887721960075860
It seems my reply only shows in these Lemmy servers:
- lemmy.ml (the server of the group to which the post was made)
- lemmy.world (the server of the post’s author)
- ttrpg.network (the server of the comment’s author)
From some other lemmy servers, my comment is not present:
- lemmy.sdf.org: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/8124910
- lemmy.one: https://lemmy.one/comment/6912806
- aussie.zone: https://aussie.zone/comment/6414209
I expected that my reply would show on any other Lemmy server with subscriptions to !privacy@lemmy.ml. Does that make sense? I’m hoping to help troubleshoot federation like this as I’m super excited about ActivityPub and what it means for the internet! :)
Gotcha. I had a feeling something around how Mastodon doesn’t support ActivityPub Groups (yet?) would be where things are going on. Congrats on piefed, by the way. I’ll start studying the codebase now as I’m keen to understand how server-to-server communication works more deeply than I do now. Sending Announce(?) and fetching stuff from other servers…
When I look at the ActivityPub Note object (via
curl -H 'Accept: application/activity+json https://hachyderm.io/@otl/111887721960075860
) I see:{ "@context": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", { "ostatus": "http://ostatus.org#", "atomUri": "ostatus:atomUri", "inReplyToAtomUri": "ostatus:inReplyToAtomUri", "conversation": "ostatus:conversation", "sensitive": "as:sensitive", "toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns#", "votersCount": "toot:votersCount" } ], "id": "https://hachyderm.io/users/otl/statuses/111887721960075860", "type": "Note", "summary": null, "inReplyTo": "https://ttrpg.network/comment/4965852", "published": "2024-02-07T01:59:08Z", "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@otl/111887721960075860", "attributedTo": "https://hachyderm.io/users/otl", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://hachyderm.io/users/otl/followers", "https://ttrpg.network/u/Neato", "https://lemmy.world/u/ForgottenFlux" ], "sensitive": false, "atomUri": "https://hachyderm.io/users/otl/statuses/111887721960075860", "inReplyToAtomUri": "https://ttrpg.network/comment/4965852", "conversation": "tag:hachyderm.io,2024-02-06:objectId=123754186:objectType=Conversation", "content": "<p><span>@<span>Neato</span></span> <span>@<span>ForgottenFlux</span></span> I totally get how you feel. One use-case I think of is machine-generated image alt-text. These are often not added to images. But with image-to-text ML models, visually-impaired people could hear a descriptions of images that before were never annotated.</p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<p><span>@<span>Neato</span></span> <span>@<span>ForgottenFlux</span></span> I totally get how you feel. One use-case I think of is machine-generated image alt-text. These are often not added to images. But with image-to-text ML models, visually-impaired people could hear a descriptions of images that before were never annotated.</p>" }, "attachment": [], "tag": [ { "type": "Mention", "href": "https://ttrpg.network/u/Neato", "name": "@Neato@ttrpg.network" }, { "type": "Mention", "href": "https://lemmy.world/u/ForgottenFlux", "name": "@ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world" } ], "replies": { "id": "https://hachyderm.io/users/otl/statuses/111887721960075860/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "type": "CollectionPage", "next": "https://hachyderm.io/users/otl/statuses/111887721960075860/replies?only_other_accounts=true&page=true", "partOf": "https://hachyderm.io/users/otl/statuses/111887721960075860/replies", "items": [] } } }
So I’m assuming an
Announce
was posted to the shared inboxes at lemmy.ml, lemmy.world and ttrpg.network… hmm… I better start reading!