Owner decision of 2026-10-06 (G-0009, FEP-400e). A persona's actor names its wall (…/graffiti, sm:wall) and, in
Smithereen's privacySettings, that its followers may write on it. A public post that is not a reply, sent with the wall
as its target by an account following the persona, is hosted: the persona is notified, it reaches the persona's and its
followers' homes, and the followers' servers and the author's are told with Add{Note}. The persona deletes it with
DELETE /api/v1/statuses/:id, which sends Remove{Note}; Smithereen deletes the post then. The wall lists the persona's
public posts that start a thread and what was written on it.
Elsewhere: an account's Add{Note} on its own wall shows the post to its followers here as on that wall (privapub.wall on
the status), and its Remove takes it away. An Add or Remove naming a collection of the account's own server PrivaPub
does not know has its document read again first, at most hourly: accounts kept before walls were read had none.
Checked live: Smithereen 40 checks (G-0009 closed); GoToSocial and Mastodon unchanged (121).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw
PrivaPub dropped Move as an unknown type and showed no `moved` on accounts.
Now a Move is believed as Mastodon believes it: the moving account sends it
about itself, and the new account, read again from its own server, names it
in alsoKnownAs (now kept on remote accounts). The old account then shows the
new one as `moved` in the Mastodon API. The personas following it keep
following it: following the new account on their behalf would tell another
server about them, so that waits for the owner.
Checked live against GoToSocial (scenarios/moves.sh: an alias, a move, 6
checks).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw
Two owner decisions of 2026-10-05, recorded in the roadmap.
Replies passed on ("the fediverse is broken without"): a public or unlisted
reply from another server to a persona's public, unlisted or followers-only
post goes on to the persona's followers as its author's server sent it, as
Mastodon forwards it, never to the replier's own server, never for a
local-only or group post; its edit and deletion follow. Only an activity its
own actor delivered is passed on (Arrival.Raw), so nothing forwarded is
forwarded again. The town checks it as relay.reply cells (specs/relay-five:
882 checks pass); Mastodon takes a passed-on activity only with an LD
signature, which GoToSocial and Akkoma don't add, and the checker knows it.
Events: a persona joins another server's event with a Join and leaves it with
a Leave, both to the organiser only, through
POST /api/privapub/v1/statuses/:id/join|leave; the organiser's Accept or
Reject is routed by our join id and shows as privapub.event.participation.
Events by invitation or taken on another site are refused before anything
is sent. Mobilizon's scenario joins and leaves an event (28 checks) and keeps
one for decePubClient's e2e.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw
A remote post's canReply, canLike and canAnnounce (with the older always and approvalRequired) are kept beside
canQuote and judged for each persona: let in at once when the rule names the public, the persona, the author's
followers while it follows the author, or the accounts the author follows while the author follows it; asked first
when only the manual list names it; refused (422) otherwise. Asked first, a ReplyRequest, LikeRequest or
AnnounceRequest with the interaction as its instrument goes to the author alone, and the interaction waits
(privapub.approval: pending). The author's Accept brings an authorization, verified on the author's origin as naming the
interaction and the post; the reply then goes out with replyAuthorization, the boost with announceAuthorization, the
like with likeAuthorization. A Reject leaves the reply ours alone and takes a like or a boost back. As a third party, a
reply a policy does not let in at once is kept only with an authorization that verifies. Clients see the rules as
GoToSocial's interaction_policy.
Checked live against GoToSocial 0.22.1: the scenario's nine new checks pass (64 in all), a reply and a like approved
through its interaction requests and a boost refused.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw
Lemmy's moderation reached PrivaPub only as removals. Now a remote
community's lock and ban, relayed in its Announce, apply too:
- a lock (Announce{Lock}, or commentsEnabled false on the post) refuses
replies to the thread, ours included, until Undo{Lock}; statuses say so
in privapub.locked;
- a ban of a persona (Announce{Block} with the community as target, or the
moderator's own Block sent straight to us, which is the community's ban
and never the moderator's block of the persona) shows as blocked_by on
the community and refuses the persona's posts and replies there until
the Undo.
The Lemmy scenario's removal was an expected failure only because it gave
up before Lemmy's 30-second batch; it now waits, and checks the lock and
the ban live (Lemmy refuses a lock or an unban without a reason): 29
checks, none expected to fail. G-0003 and G-0006 are closed.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw
Mastodon's v2 filters replace the empty stubs: a filter's title, contexts,
action (warn, hide, blur) and expiry, its keywords (whole words or not,
taken as JSON objects, listed or numbered form fields, with id and _destroy
on update) and its statuses, each with their own endpoints; the v1 API is
the same filters seen keyword by keyword. Every status a persona reads
carries the filters it matches in `filtered` (a boost as what it boosts),
matched as Mastodon matches: warning, title, text, poll options and media
descriptions. Clients apply context and action. Filters never federate, and
go with a deleted persona.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw
A Note's `location` that is a Place with coordinates (Pixelfed sends
them as strings) is kept in the new Post.Place and shown as
Status.privapub.place {name, latitude, longitude, country}; an edit
replaces it. An Event's location stays its own `places`, and nothing
renders a place back out. Closes the INTEROP P2 Pixelfed location gap
and the ROADMAP long-tail item.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw
- Our public and unlisted posts state interactionPolicy.canQuote. The policy comes from the post, then the persona
(`source[quote_policy]`: public, followers or nobody; default public as the owner chose), and is always nobody for
followers-only posts and DMs.
- QuoteRequests are answered with Accept{result} naming a parrot-licence at /peasants/{name}/parrot-licences/{id}
(the route name the owner chose), or with Reject. Followers-only checks that the requester really follows.
- A licence is a QuoteAuthorization naming both posts; revoking it (POST /api/v1/statuses/:id/quotes/:quoting_id/revoke)
marks it 410, sends Delete{licence} to the quoter and the persona's followers, and revokes our own copy of the quote.
- A quote that arrives with one of our licences is accepted only if that licence is ours, unrevoked and names exactly
that quoting post. One persona quoting another gets a licence too.
- Mastodon API: quote_approval for our posts (automatic, followers, current_user), `quote_approval_policy` when posting,
PUT /api/v1/statuses/:id/interaction_policy, `source.quote_policy`.
Checked live: GoToSocial still accepts our posts with the policy stated, and leaves likes, replies and boosts open.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012CzABvBkbcFqoHdmi8b9WB
- Received quotes: read from `quote`, `quoteUrl`, `quoteUri`, `_misskey_quote` or a FEP-e232 Link tag; the quoted post
is fetched once; a quoteAuthorization stamp is verified field by field on the quoted author's origin; a consent
quote without a stamp is pending; an older-key quote of a public post is shown; Delete of a stamp revokes. Counts
and a `quote` notification follow the accepted state. The `quote-inline` fallback survives sanitising and is removed
from content when the real quote is shown.
- Personas quote through `quoted_status_id`: posts that state a quote policy get a QuoteRequest and stay pending until
an Accept brings a stamp we can verify, then an Update adds quoteAuthorization; posts that state none are quoted
the older way, without `quote`; another persona's posts cannot be quoted yet (we issue no stamps). Quoting posts
are delivered to the quoted author too.
- Mastodon API: Status.quote (with the quoted status one level deep), quotes_count, quote_approval from the remote
policy, GET /api/v1/statuses/:id/quotes, `quote` notifications, and api_versions.mastodon = 7.
Checked live: GoToSocial's author-only quote policy is respected.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012CzABvBkbcFqoHdmi8b9WB
- Incoming reactions in all three shapes: Misskey and Sharkey Likes carrying an emoji (`content` or
`_misskey_reaction`), Pleroma, Akkoma and Iceshrimp.NET EmojiReacts, and their Undo. Unicode reactions are one
grapheme; custom ones need their Emoji tag and keep its image; `:name@host:` is read as `name`. A Like whose
content is a heart stays a favourite.
- Reactions are kept per account and emoji on our posts and on remote ones we hold, and the author of a local post
gets a `pleroma:emoji_reaction` notification with the emoji.
- Personas react through Pleroma's API (PUT/DELETE /api/v1/pleroma/statuses/:id/reactions/:emoji, GET for the list),
which sends an EmojiReact (or its Undo) to the post's author.
- Statuses carry `emoji_reactions` (read by Phanpy) and `pleroma.emoji_reactions`, with counts and whether the viewer
reacted.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012CzABvBkbcFqoHdmi8b9WB
- Custom emoji (Emoji tags) on posts, display names, bios and profile fields, at most 64 per object, proxied, in
Status.emojis and Account.emojis.
- Remote profiles keep their header, profile fields, locked flag, published date, movedTo, indexable, memorial and
image descriptions (a locked GoToSocial account no longer shows as open).
- Polls: incoming Questions (Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, GoToSocial shapes) with counts, voters, end and closed;
our own polls from the Mastodon API go out as Questions; votes in are counted once per voter and never become
replies; personas vote on other servers' polls with one Note per choice; counts refresh with an Update at most every
three minutes; a poll closes on time and tells its voters and its author. GET /api/v1/polls/:id and POST
/api/v1/polls/:id/votes.
- An Update without a newer `updated` only refreshes poll, video, audio and event details and leaves no revision.
Checked live against GoToSocial: each side's poll reaches the other as a poll and each side's vote is counted.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012CzABvBkbcFqoHdmi8b9WB
- Dislike and its Undo are kept as downvotes (Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin, Friendica) and shown with favourites as votes.
- ChatMessage (Lemmy 0.19, Mbin, PieFed to those two) arrives as a direct message.
- A deleted object's id is remembered for 90 days, so a Create that arrives after its Delete cannot bring the post
back; the post's ObjectRecord goes with it.
- A Join of one of our objects is answered with Ignore, as FEP-8a8e asks of a server without RSVP.
- A 503 with Retry-After is waited out like a 429 instead of counting as a failure of the host (GoToSocial throttling,
Mastodon's temporary key failures).
- Status.privapub carries what a Mastodon Status cannot: object type, title, excerpt, cover, the author's source,
link, video, audio and event details, and up/down votes, with every media URL proxied.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012CzABvBkbcFqoHdmi8b9WB
- ObjectShapes reads `url`, `icon` and `image` as a value, a Link or an array; Markdown `content` (PeerTube) is
rendered; a missing `mediaType` is inferred from the extension or the attachment type (Bridgy); alt text comes from
`name`, `summary` or their language maps; thumbnails come from attachment `icon`, object `icon[]`, `image` or a Loops
`preview`; durations are ISO 8601 or seconds; per-attachment `sensitive` is kept; the language falls back to
`@context` `@language` (Pleroma); titles and excerpts are plain text; hashtags normalise with NFKC like Mastodon.
- Typed details on Post: Link (Lemmy link posts, Mbin `source` URLs, Mastodon 4.7 Link attachments with an FEP-8967
publisher preview), Video (PeerTube files with their streams, HLS playlist, poster, captions, chapters, licence,
channel, live state, comment policy), Audio (Funkwhale), Event (Mobilizon, Gancio, Hubzilla: times, zone, floating
time, places and addresses, online link, capacity, status), the cover image, and the author's own source text.
- Mastodon API: a card built from those details without fetching anything, an event's "when · where" line, attachment
thumbnails and durations, and no media file offered as a preview image.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012CzABvBkbcFqoHdmi8b9WB
OpenIddict 7.7 (MongoDB stores, keys kept in Mongo so tokens survive
restarts) serves /oauth/authorize, /oauth/token, /oauth/revoke and the
discovery documents, including /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server:
- authorization code (PKCE optional) and client credentials, Mastodon's
scopes including the granular ones, non-expiring reference tokens,
`created_at` in the token response, and the urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob
page that shows the code;
- /oauth/login signs the private login into a fifteen-minute cookie that
only /oauth sees (rate limited, antiforgery-protected); /oauth/authorize
then asks which persona the application acts as. The token's subject
is that persona's id and nothing else; no root id reaches a token, an
authorization or a log line;
- the token exchange refuses a persona whose login is banned or deleted,
and every API request checks the same.
/api/v1/apps registers applications dynamically, /api/v1/apps/
verify_credentials, /api/v1/instance (v1 and v2, "4.2.0 (compatible;
PrivaPub)") and verify_credentials answer in Mastodon's shapes: snake_case
with explicit nulls, Rails-style parameters from query, form or JSON,
{"error": ...} on failure, Link paging. CORS exposes Link.
/api goes to OpenIddict validation and everything else to the existing
JWT; the JWT failure handler no longer sends the exception and stack trace
to the client.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012CzABvBkbcFqoHdmi8b9WB
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