Pre-Alpha ActivityPub-related bug reports

[julian]

@The-SkyFoxx hmm, this seems to work though?

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[the skyfoxx]

Seems we can mark it as a bug, then

When I follow, the browser (safari) is registering it as successful.

However when I refresh, it's showing that I haven't followed the person.

For some reason, it seems as if I am getting success follows, but they don't persist.

I haven't done anything special to get an account on mastodon or the fediverse. My account only exists on Nodebb.

[julian]

Thanks @The-SkyFoxx, I'll take a look and see if I can figure out what's going on.

Can you try following my other account [email protected]?

[the skyfoxx]

@julian said in Pre-Alpha ActivityPub-related bug reports:

Can you try following my other account [email protected]?

Same deal. I am following these steps:

1. Go to: https://community.nodebb.org/user/[email protected]
2. Click follow
3. Get the success message:
   
4. State of the follow button changes to "Unfollow"
   
5. When I refresh, the follow button changes to "Follow" again
   
   (Just like the video above)

[julian]

@The-SkyFoxx okay, thanks! I'll take a look

[crazycells]

hi @julian , although I read these two topics, they do not go away from my "unread list" and "unread count"

[julian]

@crazycells Should be resolved now.

[crazycells]

@julian yes, it is thanks...

[the skyfoxx]

Probably a todo more than a bug.

You cannot see posts of mastodon users on nodebb:
https://community.nodebb.org/user/[email protected]/posts

[julian]

@The-SkyFoxx correct, that'd be a to do

Used to have follow lists working actually, but then bots started scraping them for data, that was oddly creepy

[the skyfoxx]

Breadcrumbs for /world/all and /world are identical?

(clicking on a link in /world/all creates a breadcrumb fro /world)

[the skyfoxx]

Some tags in /word/all are not relevant to this instance

Screenshot 2024-03-13 at 10.49.26 pm.png

E.g. When you click the government tag in the link below:

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/29934340-cef1-465f-835b-2dbe293e9972/what-s-missing-from-railroad-safety-data-dead-workers-and-severed-limbs.-thanks-to-government-loopholes-rail-companies-haven-t-been-scrutinized-by-the-federal-railroad-administration-for-scores-of-alleged-worker-injuries-and-at-least-two-deaths.-new...

You are led to a no topics page: https://community.nodebb.org/tags/government

While news works: https://community.nodebb.org/tags/news

[crazycells]

I am not sure if this is a bug, or just translations are not updated yet... This is how world and world all looks when I am not logged in...

[julian]

@crazycells yes, new strings are not sent out for localisation at this point

[julian]

@The-SkyFoxx Thanks for reporting — this one is related to remote topics not being added to the respective tags' lists in the database.

Yet another thing on the to-do list I'm afraid

[the skyfoxx]

@julian said in Pre-Alpha ActivityPub-related bug reports:

Yet another thing on the to-do list I'm afraid

Yeah I figure most things at this stage aren't bugs, but worth mentioning anyway

[julian]

@The-SkyFoxx Are you still experiencing issues with following remote accounts?

[scott@authorship.studio]

For a threaded conversation, if I am following someone who created a top level post, the expected behavior is that you get to see the whole thread. For some reason, I am not getting all of the replies to the thread. I have to go to the forum to view all of them, and since they never reached my app, I can't reply to them via ActivityPub.

[julian]

@[email protected] said:

For a threaded conversation, if I am following someone who created a top level post, the expected behavior is that you get to see the whole thread.

I'm not entirely sure this is the case. Expectation, 100% agreed, but in practice, I don't think that is the case.

For NodeBB to do this would mean that when Create(Note) activity is received in response to a post, that it be automatically forwarded to all the followers of the author being replied to. It can be done, but can't be properly verified because the forwarded activity's domain doesn't match the domain of the sender (me). Any reasonably secure AP implementation should automatically drop it.

I have oodles of ideas as to how to solve the topic of backfill, but message forwarding I don't know about...

[julian]

@[email protected] I think I know why this is the case.

For you on Hubzilla, the message as received by NodeBB contains the following collection https://community.nodebb.org/uid/2/followers. The expectation according to the spec states that I must forward that message along to those users. This is so those users would get the whole conversation, and avoid ghost replies, etc.

NodeBB does not do that at the moment. Thanks for letting me know about it.

The thing is, while Hubzilla does this, and even if NodeBB implemented it, Mastodon does not send those collections. When a reply is received, its recipients list usually contains only the person being replied to, the author's follower collection, and anybody else who happens to be mentioned.

So that's the reason why you can't see all of the replies in the thread, because another implementor didn't send them to everybody

It's actually quite interesting that Hubzilla explicitly includes OP's follower collection in the recipient list, I was thinking of doing the same for NodeBB.