Why are supposedly ActivityPub-federated Discourse threads inaccessible via external AP clients?

angus · May 20, 2025, 8:11am

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Posts from Discourse do not resolve via the Search API

opened 02:05AM - 07 May 25 UTC

closed 12:01PM - 21 May 25 UTC

trwnh

api activitypub

### Steps to reproduce the problem Call `/api/v2/search` with `resolve=true` fo…r a `q`uery of a Discourse post -- for example, https://meta.discourse.org/ap/object/5874fad7df806caa1fe34c382c1d2991 ### Expected behaviour The object should be resolved as a Status ### Actual behaviour The search returns no results ### Detailed description Per https://browser.pub/https://meta.discourse.org/ap/object/5874fad7df806caa1fe34c382c1d2991 the payload is as follows: ```http HTTP/1.1 200 OK cache-control: no-cache, no-store cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC cf-ray: 93bd1fc4d4df6773-ATL connection: keep-alive content-type: application/activity+json; charset=utf-8 cross-origin-opener-policy: same-origin date: Wed, 07 May 2025 02:00:30 GMT referrer-policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin server: cloudflare strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 transfer-encoding: chunked vary: Accept x-content-type-options: nosniff x-discourse-route: discourse_activity_pub/ap/objects/show x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN x-permitted-cross-domain-policies: none x-request-id: d70bb69f-bf6b-4084-9d6a-342fa1c33df9 x-xss-protection: 0 { "id": "https://meta.discourse.org/ap/object/5874fad7df806caa1fe34c382c1d2991", "type": "Note", "audience": "https://meta.discourse.org/ap/actor/a1ba34f9dd25f8ad96ce6efcbfb931e5", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public", "https://meta.discourse.org/ap/actor/a1ba34f9dd25f8ad96ce6efcbfb931e5" ], "cc": [ "https://meta.discourse.org/ap/actor/a1ba34f9dd25f8ad96ce6efcbfb931e5" ], "published": "2025-05-04T09:22:51Z", "updated": "2025-05-04T09:22:51Z", "url": "https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-supposedly-activitypub-federated-discourse-threads-inaccessible-via-external-ap-clients/356997/9", "attributedTo": "https://meta.discourse.org/ap/actor/d721191fe3a461470f2dbbf85c1cc98e", "context": "https://meta.discourse.org/ap/collection/0a5f1ca375b3dd95ce3e810e567f305c", "content": "icaria36:<blockquote><code>https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-supposedly-activitypub-federated-discourse-threads-inaccessible-via-external-ap-clients/356997</code> cannot be found on Mastodon.</blockquote>@icaria36, it's probably a fault of Mastodon's, then, since Discourse federates it:<a href=\"https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/34600#discussion-8278099\">https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/34600#discussion-8278099</a> <a href=\"https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-supposedly-activitypub-federated-discourse-threads-inaccessible-via-external-ap-clients/356997/9\">Discuss this on our forum.</a>", "inReplyTo": "https://meta.discourse.org/ap/object/fda0d57b504bbfdfd91ec1f80bce1742", "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" } ``` The only things that look potentially off to me are: - The `Content-Type` header has a `charset=utf-8` parameter on it - The addressee `https://meta.discourse.org/ap/actor/a1ba34f9dd25f8ad96ce6efcbfb931e5` is present in both `to` and `cc` ### Mastodon instance mastodon.social ### Mastodon version v4.4.0-nightly.2025-05-07-security ### Technical details _No response_

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