@omega @Kichae @baris @julian I think the only problem here is you assume people should be able to "grok" it.I don't think that's a problem. I think people should be able to understand that the Internet is a communications platform. Growing up on IRC isn't a requirement to intuiting this; the point there was that I people understood it there and then. People should be able to understand it here and now, too. They've just been trained otherwise.

@[email protected] it was actually because of @ in actor IDs - the codepath for choosing a webfinger lookup over just accepting the URL as the ID only checked for its presence, and the code for webfinger lookups was only meant to run for the acct: protocol. So yeah, not WP fault at all, just a combination of a bug and missing feature Now both should be fixed.

@crazycells I do not like repeated logic, as it adds maintenance burden. I will be removing it regardless

@julian @box464 Question can be used as an activity instead of as an object. Mastodon's usage wraps it in a Create, so you could maybe just not do that.

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