Home timelines, mention notifications, and threads that fetch their parents

Fanout writes a TimelineEntry for every persona a post should reach: the
author, local followers of a local author, local followers of a remote one,
the members of a direct conversation or a circle. Mastodon's home rules
apply when it is written: a reply shows only to followers of both sides
(or to the one replied to), a reblog only where reblogs are wanted. A
mention of a local persona becomes a Mention notification.

Inbound posts are now also kept when a persona follows their author.

RemotePosts holds what CreateHandler and backfill share: building a Post
from a note, and fetching a public parent the first time a reply to it
arrives, so its author is known (a reply to an unknown or non-public
parent stays out of home timelines). Each fetched ancestor queues a
FetchAncestors job for the next one, up to ten deep.

/clientapi/timeline/home and /clientapi/notifications (with
/notifications/read) page by max_id for the persona's own root only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012CzABvBkbcFqoHdmi8b9WB

PrivaPub/Federation/Inbox/Handlers/CreateHandler.cs

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using MongoDB.Driver;
 using MongoDB.Entities;
 
+using PrivaPub.Domain.Timelines;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Actors;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Moderation;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Objects;
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@ using PrivaPub.Federation.Rendering;
 using PrivaPub.Models.Federation;
 using PrivaPub.Models.Group;
 using PrivaPub.Models.Post;
+using PrivaPub.Models.Social;
 using PrivaPub.Models.User;
 using PrivaPub.StaticServices;
 
@@ -29,10 +31,14 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Inbox.Handlers
 		readonly IRemoteActorService _remoteActors;
 		readonly IDeliveryService _delivery;
 		readonly IDomainBlocks _domainBlocks;
+		readonly IFanout _fanout;
+		readonly IRemotePosts _remotePosts;
 
 		public CreateHandler(DbEntities dbEntities, ILocalActorService localActors, IRemoteActorService remoteActors, IDeliveryService delivery,
-			IDomainBlocks domainBlocks)
+			IDomainBlocks domainBlocks, IFanout fanout, IRemotePosts remotePosts)
 		{
+			_fanout = fanout;
+			_remotePosts = remotePosts;
 			_dbEntities = dbEntities;
 			_localActors = localActors;
 			_remoteActors = remoteActors;
@@ -86,21 +92,13 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Inbox.Handlers
 				group = default;
 
 			var repliesToLocal = parent is { IsFederatedCopy: false } && visibility != PostVisibility.Direct;
-			if (visibility == PostVisibility.Direct ? persons.Count == 0 : group == default && persons.Count == 0 && !repliesToLocal)
+			var followed = visibility != PostVisibility.Direct && await _dbEntities.Followings
+				.Match(f => f.TargetActorURI == author.ActorURI && f.State == FollowState.Accepted)
+				.ExecuteAnyAsync(token);
+			if (visibility == PostVisibility.Direct ? persons.Count == 0 : group == default && persons.Count == 0 && !repliesToLocal && !followed)
 				return;
-
-			var mentions = new List<PostMention>();
-			foreach (var mention in note.Mentions)
-			{
-				var local = await _localActors.FindByUri(mention.ActorURI, token);
-				mentions.Add(new PostMention
-				{
-					ActorURI = mention.ActorURI,
-					Handle = mention.Handle,
-					IsLocal = local != default,
-					AccountId = local?.Id
-				});
-			}
+			if (parent == default && visibility != PostVisibility.Direct)
+				parent = await _remotePosts.Parent(note.InReplyTo, 1, token);
 
 			DmGroup conversation = default;
 			if (visibility == PostVisibility.Direct)
@@ -112,39 +110,10 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Inbox.Handlers
 				conversation = await FindOrCreateConversation(participants, Origin.Same(note.Context, author.ActorURI) ? note.Context : default, token);
 			}
 
-			var post = new PostEntity
-			{
-				ID = PrivacyIds.At(note.Published),
-				ObjectURI = note.Id,
-				ActivityURI = Id(activity),
-				ActorURI = author.ActorURI,
-				AuthorAccountId = author.ID,
-				Visibility = visibility,
-				To = to,
-				Cc = cc,
-				Url = note.Url,
-				ContextURI = note.Context,
-				QuoteURI = note.QuoteUri,
-				GroupId = group?.Id,
-				ConversationId = conversation?.ID,
-				Title = note.Title,
-				SpoilerText = note.SpoilerText,
-				HasContentWarning = note.Sensitive,
-				Text = note.ContentHtml,
-				ContentHtml = note.ContentHtml,
-				ContentFormat = ContentFormat.Html,
-				Language = note.Language,
-				Mentions = mentions,
-				Tags = note.Tags.ToList(),
-				Media = _domainBlocks.Find(new Uri(author.ActorURI).Host)?.RejectMedia == true ? new() : note.Attachments.ToList(),
-				InReplyToURI = note.InReplyTo,
-				AnsweringToPostId = parent?.ID,
-				InReplyToAccountId = parent?.AuthorAccountId ?? parent?.GroupUserId,
-				IsFederatedCopy = true,
-				CreationDate = note.Published,
-				UpdateDate = note.Updated ?? note.Published,
-				EditedAt = note.Updated
-			};
+			var post = await _remotePosts.Build(note, author, visibility, to, cc, parent, token);
+			post.ActivityURI = Id(activity);
+			post.GroupId = group?.Id;
+			post.ConversationId = conversation?.ID;
 			try
 			{
 				await DB.Default.SaveAsync(post, token);
@@ -156,6 +125,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Inbox.Handlers
 
 			if (parent != default)
 				await DB.Default.Update<PostEntity>().MatchID(parent.ID).Modify(b => b.Inc(p => p.RepliesCount, 1)).ExecuteAsync(token);
+			await _fanout.Distribute(post, token);
 			if (conversation != default)
 				await DB.Default.Update<DmGroup>().MatchID(conversation.ID).Modify(g => g.UpdatedAt, DateTime.UtcNow).ExecuteAsync(token);
 			if (group != default)