Forwarded activities are believed as far as their origin vouches

A thread's server passes on what happens in it, signed with its own key: Mastodon forwards the replies to its
accounts' posts and their deletions, Friendica every activity in its threads. PrivaPub answered them 401, which also
tells a sender its signature failed. Now they get 202 and nothing in them is believed: a forwarded Create or Update is
taken as its object reads at the actor's origin, a Delete of a public or unlisted copy once that origin answers 404 or
410 (RemoteActorService.IsGone; FederationHttp remembers the status of a refusal), anything else is let go, and our own
activities coming back are ignored. A forwarded copy has its own dedupe key, so one that failed never hides the
author's own delivery.

A reply in the thread of someone followed here is kept, as Mastodon keeps them. Mastodon delivers a reply to the
followers of the account it answers; PrivaPub dropped those as unaddressed, which the pasture showed: the outsider's
reply its Mastodon scenario said was never delivered had been, and was thrown away.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw
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@@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Support
public async Task<InboxResult> Deliver(RemoteActor sender, string path, JsonNode activity)
{
var result = await Receiver.Receive(sender.Post(Host, path, activity), default, CancellationToken.None);
var dedupe = "inbox|" + (activity is JsonObject ? activity["id"]?.GetValue<string>() : default);
var id = activity is JsonObject ? activity["id"]?.GetValue<string>() : default;
var dedupe = (result.Reason == "forwarded" ? "inbox|forwarded|" : "inbox|") + id;
var job = await DB.Default.Find<Job>().Match(j => j.DedupeKey == dedupe).ExecuteFirstAsync();
if (job != default)
Assert.Equal(JobResult.Done, (await Processor.Handle(job, CancellationToken.None)).Result);