NodeBB-ActivityPub Bridge Test Instance

I would be happy to consolidate, but I think the chances of some large percentage of the fediverse choking badly on an array for the context element are pretty high. Same reason I don't use an array in an actor 'url' field. It's  a few years since I tried this, but 2/3 of the fediverse projects at the time couldn't deal with it and nobody bothered to fix it for years because "Mastodon doesn't do this, so you must be doing something wrong."

Anyway, I'm retired from the fediverse shit-show now. Y'all can do what you want. But please implement comment control. It isn't a "feature" - it's basic online security (except for some freespeech folks who still think everybody with an opinion or a dick has some God-given right to shove it in your face).

The fediverse you save might be your own.

Last year, I moved conversations into Collections identified by the context element, and we only accepted Add/Remove activities for collections from Collection->attributedTo. All submissions were made to them and only to them.

We previously sent replies only to the thread originator - a concept for restricted access conversations I came up with about the same time the Diaspora folks did. We kept it for a number of years even though Mastodon didn't support it, but moving conversation threads into a simple  collection management operation not only makes sense, it bloody works brilliantly and co-exists with microblogging. It also co-exists with FEP-7888.

Best of luck. We gave up trying to force or generate a title back in 2010, because some posts are nothing but a photo or video. And as you noticed titles are somewhat incompatible with the microblog side of the fediverse. If your own software requires a title you're probably stuck in some cases where you can't extract words from the content with something like '[unknown title]'.