Hey @MDN, with Stack Overflow’s ongoing community implosion, now would be an excellent time to launch MDN Answers so people have a better place to help each other learn.
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@julian mastodon doesn't use the Question activity type.. at lesst not in a way that would expect things to break
It supports receiving Question, but it's mostly processed as Note, it'll only create a poll if there's anyOf or oneOf present.
On the sending side, it'll send Question instead of Note if it has a poll attached.
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@[email protected] theoretically a Q&A site would bundle in answers, so we'd send
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@julian though oddly it expects, I think, Create(Question) instead of Question (which is an activity in of itself)
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@julian then you might get some weirdness, because for that I think you'd be sending an IRI to another object, where Mastodon expects poll options to be inline: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/lib/activitypub/parser/poll_parser.rb
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Emelia 👸🏻replied to Emelia 👸🏻 on last edited by [email protected]
@julian arguably there's a possibility of a bug there where valid? will return true because items is an array, but options could resolve to an empty array (i.e., no "name" or "content" property on the item because it's a string & not an object
So the answer there would be to valid the values in items (anyOf/allOf) as being objects with a specific shape & type.
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@julian also, looks like if you send Mastodon a Question (top level, no wrapping Create), it may ignore it (will if my reading is correct).
