Re: Moving fediverse thread into forum: Handling replies
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@niels @Kichae @eeeee what specifically you're asking for here is a way to retrieve the entire conversation, all branches of it, for the full context.
This is not something ActivityPub can do currently by design. However I am working with a number of separate implementors to establish something like this. You can see the progress of our efforts here:
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18647/the-state-of-conversational-contexts-february-2025
This is already working in the wild. If you attempt to pull any post from NodeBB, you will get the entire topic, including remote replies.
Mastodon is separately working on something called "reply tree traversal", which is something that will also work but is an approach I feel is fraught with reliability issues.
