tom@tomkahe.com That's a fun idea... I'm doing it (using FetchRSS, though) in NodeBB. community.openbeta.io pulls in a bunch of climbing news websites via their RSS feeds and re-publishes it onto fedi

smallcircles@social.coop if you're not able to consume dev discussions on the fediverse and have to continually rely on people creating content on your platform then you need to raise that as an issue on your platform software.

douginamug@mastodon.xyz this entire series right here https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/understanding-activitypub/

benpate@mastodon.social Emissary interested? Har Har Har

jsit@social.coop Ghost? NodeBB? Just to name a couple

feditips@social.growyourown.services ahaldorsen@tutoteket.no feel free to reach out if you have trouble setting up or administering NodeBB. We're on the fediverse, and happy to be here!

@evan@cosocial.ca hmm. I agree in the sense that any combination of recipients can be addressed, but the specific term "follower only" (to the exclusion of the public pseudo-user) isn't AP specific... could be wrong on that one. Either way I do think it's a good courtesy to assume equal or narrower visibility when replying to any post. The specific issue you outlined in OP seems to be a Mastodon bug for sure.

@pfefferle@mastodon.social just wanted to poke you about this issue again. The latest updates to NodeBB now do a webfinger backcheck to ensure that the actor has a valid webfinger entry for their purported handle. If it does not, then the user is not properly created. Mastodon also does this. This check is probably for security as well as for preventing handle collisions. The multilingual plugin in conjunction with the ActivityPub plugin creates users that share the same handle, and that causes issues with federated content. For example, this article by @jonvt@vivaldi.com will load up just fine in Mastodon, but this japanese article by @akira@vivaldi.com will not, because that second article's attributedTo is https://vivaldi.com/ja/?author=176, which fails that check (the author's ID is actually https://vivaldi.com?author=176 as per the handle backcheck) cc @AltCode