I’m trying to figure out how to get the comments of a post given a link to it using ActivityPub.

Based on reading the ActivityPub spec, I thought comments were federated via the replies key of the ActivityPub Object.

This works for Mastodon posts, but not for Lemmy (nor Pleroma). As an example

curl -H "Accept: application/activity+json" https://lemmy.my.id/post/79514 | jq

doesn’t contain a replies key. Yet the comments are federated to Mastodon somehow.

What is going on? How can I get the comment?

  • r00ty
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    01 year ago

    You can see the hierarchy above not below.

    You might get a like. It looks like:

    like: [
        "id" => "https://lemmy.one/activities/like/7d0ef24f-755f-48dd-9b37-ea42041cb34e",
        "actor" => "https://lemmy.one/u/Matt",
        "object" => "https://lemmy.procrastinati.org/comment/146844",
        "type" => "Like",
        "audience" => "https://lemdro.id/c/android"
    ]
    
    

    In the object property you see the comment. If you visit that you’ll get among the rest of the json for the comment

    "inReplyTo": "https://lemmy.world/comment/1269475",

    And again

    "inReplyTo": "https://lemdro.id/post/77457",

    Now you have the hierarchy from the like’s comment to the post. Not the rest of the tree, enough to render the comment in context though.

    • CommunityLinkFixerBotB
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      11 year ago

      Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

    • @questOP
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      11 year ago

      I understand exactly what you’re saying; you can get the parents but not the replies in that situation.

      I’m just saying that in your situation (e.g. someone I follow on Mastodon likes a Lemmy post) it would be convenient for me as a user to be able to view the replies to that Lemmy post, but I cannot necessarily do that because Lemmy does not include replies.

      • r00ty
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        01 year ago

        I expect it does, from the lemmy API. But from the ActivityPub api, it doesn’t make sense to.