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

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-supposedly-activitypub-federated-discourse-threads-inaccessible-via-external-ap-clients/356997
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** activitypub
**Created:** [March 12, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-supposedly-activitypub-federated-discourse-threads-inaccessible-via-external-ap-clients/356997 "2025-03-12T16:51:58Z")
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### Author: ![RokeJulianLockhart1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rokejulianlockhart1/32/501733_2.png) [@RokeJulianLockhart1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RokeJulianLockhart1)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2025, 8:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-supposedly-activitypub-federated-discourse-threads-inaccessible-via-external-ap-clients/356997/4 "2025-05-04T08:54:12Z")

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What the heck has occurred here? I have never written like the undermentioned:

 RokeJulianLockhart:

> Discuss this on our forum.

...and someone's taken a sledgehammer to my markup.

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