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@angus What are your thoughts regarding Announce(Note)? Will Discourse send those activities in addition to Announce(Create)?

And another question: is it possible to add pagination to outbox collections? Some of them are very large, https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/actor/bcde488169a4ac803695493219aece2a/outbox contains >500 items.

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Sorry for the slow reply.

tbh Iā€™m still a little confused as to why you would want to send both Announce(Note) and Announce(Create(Note)).

Yes, Iā€™ve been meaning to do this for a while. Thanks for the prompt. Iā€™ll do it soon!

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My software is more like a microblog than a forum. It has timelines where Announce(Note) are displayed as reposts. It can process Announce(Create(Note)) too, but they are not treated as reposts, so I canā€™t see what is happening in a Discourse group. I can fix that, but there was a discussion between you and @devnull about whether to produce Announce(Note) or not, and I am wondering what you have decided.

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Announce(Create) is always sent out for 1b12 compliance.

Announce(Note) is sent out for original/top-level posts only (for Mastodon compliance)

P.S. why did this series of replies not get federated?

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I see. Thanks for your responses. I will think on it some more in the Discourse context. I havenā€™t had the bandwidth to really come to a conclusion on it yet.

Because the topic isnā€™t (wasnā€™t) published.

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Weā€™ve added manual publication controls now actually.

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Iā€™ve just gone ahead and published all the posts in this topic, so theyā€™re available to other servers. They wonā€™t be delivered though (as bulk delivery would be spammy). Now subsequent posts (e.g. this one) will be delivered to followers of Community. This is the current AP status of this post.

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And other servers can pull in the context (i.e. the topic) if they so wish.

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I made changes on my side - Announce(Create) activities are treated as reposts now. This workaround is not difficult to implement, and if other blogging platforms don't support these activities, not catering to them might be a better long term strategy.

Of course, if Mastodon doesn't support Announce(Create), the calculation could be different, but I was told that it supports them.

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