- The media proxy streams ranged requests from the origin (passing the range on, never caching), downloads and caches
whole files otherwise, and serves cached files with range support. A PeerTube video is never fetched whole for one
viewer, and clients still never contact the remote host.
- PeerTube's fragmented MP4 files inside an HLS entry are read as variants, so HLS-only instances play too.
- A remote Video or Audio post becomes one playable Mastodon attachment: the best MP4 up to 720p that carries both
sound and picture, with its poster and duration; the card is kept only when nothing is playable.
- nginx: /media/proxy/ with proxy_buffering off and a 600 s read timeout (applied on the box, with a backup).
Checked live: a GoToSocial image through the proxy answers 206 with exactly the asked range when streamed, 200 when
cached, and 206 with the right Content-Range from the cache.
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- 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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- A public post that links to a page gets a preview card: from the post's own data first (FEP-8967 Link preview, the
object's image, title and summary); otherwise the server reads the page once, 0-60 s after the post arrives, never
when someone reads it. OpenGraph and Twitter tags give title, description and image; one LinkPreview per address
is cached for 7 days and shared by the whole server, so a fetch never points at a persona.
- Lemmy link posts, which carry no title or description, get them filled in.
- The page fetch uses the guarded client (public addresses, three redirects, HTML only, first 512 KB).
- Federation:FetchLinkPreviews switches page fetching off.
- Local public posts get cards too.
Checked live: a link to a GoToSocial profile page becomes a card with its title, description and proxied image.
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- 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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- 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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- When a sender's key cannot be fetched because its server timed out or answered 5xx, the inbox answers 503 with
Retry-After: 300 instead of 401, so Mastodon 4.7 retries rather than switching to RFC 9421 signatures we do not
verify yet. The fetcher's failure cache now remembers whether a failure was temporary.
- Follow, Like, Block, Accept, Reject and Undo ids are deliberately not dereferenceable: serving them would publish
who follows, likes and blocks whom. They are always sent with their object embedded.
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- 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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- A remote `summary` is a content warning only on a Note or Question, or when `sensitive` is set. On Articles,
Events, Videos, Pages and Audio it is an excerpt (WordPress teasers, Mobilizon dates and places, Mbin titles) and
is now kept as `Post.Excerpt` instead of hiding the post. `Post.ObjectType` records the remote type, and the
Mastodon API shows a remote non-Note object's title above its body again.
- Persona usernames must match `^[a-z0-9_]+$`, as groups already did; a name outside it was unreachable from
Mastodon and Misskey.
- `postingRestrictedToMods` is defined in our JSON-LD context (Iceshrimp.NET drops undefined terms).
- `Vary: Accept` on actor and object URLs.
- Owner decision: blocks federate. A block sends `Block`, an unblock `Undo{Block}`; checked live against GoToSocial.
- Owner decision: a persona's and a group's `published`, and the day in new ids, is a random day up to two weeks
before creation, so personas made the same day no longer share a date. Migration _007 gives existing ones theirs.
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docs/INTEROP.md collects five research passes from 2026-10-01: Mastodon 4.7 and GoToSocial 0.22, the Misskey and
Pleroma families, the threadiverse (Lemmy 0.19/1.0, PieFed, Mbin, NodeBB), media and long-form (PeerTube, Loops,
Pixelfed, WordPress, Ghost, events, audio, books, Threads, Flipboard, Bridgy Fed), and cross-cutting FEPs and
signatures. Each claim was checked against source code or live fetches, with dates and versions.
It is checked against our own code: what is already right, three cheap things that are wrong today (summary read as a
CW on every type, unchecked usernames, an undefined context term), what the rich client needs kept (a post kind with
typed payloads, raw capture and provenance for the details view), and the six privacy choices the owner has to make.
The roadmap's P5 becomes P5 to P8, ordered by that evidence.
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tools/pasture/run.sh starts PrivaPub, GoToSocial and Mongo on one podman network behind Caddy's internal CA, and
interop.sh drives both through their own client APIs: follows (one to a locked account), posts, CW, replies, likes,
boosts, DMs, edits, deletes and unfollow. All 25 checks pass, three fresh runs in a row.
- Federation:AcceptAnyCertificate joins the two test-network switches; startup refuses all three in Production.
- WebFinger falls back to http only when AllowPlainHttp is on.
- A bootstrap logger, so a failure before the host is built is no longer silent.
- P4 is ticked in the roadmap, with what has not been run live (Lemmy, a Mastodon circle member).
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Communities:
- a post addressed to a community (to, cc or audience) is accepted
according to its posting policy - followers, anyone, or moderators -
and GroupDistributor announces the whole activity with `audience` to
the community's followers, plus the object for new posts so Mastodon
shows them; updates and deletes of community content are announced too;
- top-level posts are Pages with a name (the title, or a headline from
the text); /flock counts members, /wardens lists moderators;
- a Mastodon client posts into a community by mentioning it, or into a
remote group, which sets `audience`;
- an Announce of an activity from a remote group a persona follows (Lemmy)
is followed through: the object is fetched from its own origin, kept with
its AudienceURI, and fanned out to the group's local followers; updates
are applied in place and deletes checked against the origin.
Circles stop being local-only: an undiscoverable Group actor whose follows
are all requests the owner approves; posts addressed to the circle and its
/flock and delivered to members' own inboxes, never announced, never
public; a remote member's post into the circle is accepted from members
only. SignedFetchAuthorizer serves circle posts and collections only to a
signed request from a member or a member server's instance actor - 404 for
anyone else. Circles never surface in search, lookups, mentions, account
ids or profile pages.
Federation:SecureMode requires a valid signature on every GET under
/peasants except the instance actor. Group forms take a posting policy.
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/@user and /@user/{id} are Razor pages showing an avatar's or community's
public and unlisted posts: no scripts, a strict CSP, no-referrer, noindex,
and an alternate link to the ActivityPub document. A client asking them
for activity+json is redirected to the actor or note, and the actor and
note redirect browsers here.
NodeInfo answers 2.1 as well as 2.0 (repository, homepage, a link to
FEDERATION.md) and counts only public local posts.
FEDERATION.md (FEP-67ff) lists the protocols, FEPs, route names,
activities and the security rules a peer will notice.
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