@pfefferle@mastodon.social the NodeBB community is updated to include @oplik0's commit, so you can try again

@pfefferle@mastodon.social 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.