[WIP] Mentions

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Work in progress for constructing a per user inbox, federating replies.

• Basic Reply to Comments (no mentions or audience yet) [Question] Cannot reply to comments from website #42
• Threaded Replies
• Inbox forwarding

The wordpress comment system is fine for allowing Fediverse users to interact with a post, however currently Private Mentions (non-public, such as Followers Only, and Direct/Private Messages) end up as WP Comments.

The following types of mentions go to a custom Mentions Post Type

• Private mentions should bypass comments and go to inbox as per Mark private DM comments somehow #72
• Mentions unrelated to a Post should bypass comment system and go to mentions post type as per Mentions to the account appears in the comments #50
• Reply to received Mention

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Slow and steady with this, there are a lot of moving parts to test.

• Tagging users in comments
• Only federate comments from AP enabled post types

Unfinished business:

• Tagging users in posts
• Post Audience (Local only?, Public, Unlisted, Followers only, Private) Is there any chance to implement support for messages (aka toots)? #53
• Report Private/Follower only mentions to moderation

[pfefferle]

Isn't it easier to use a custom-post-type for direct messages? It would make it easiere to list them, to update them and to comment them?

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Indeed, this is what I have upstream, and will be pushing in the next few days.

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Still some work to do:

• Mention audience
• Mention threading
• Resolve Merge conflicts

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Rebased from master. Not ready for Merge

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• do not include link from content template, or bypass outright if sending a non-public mention
• change status for non-public mentions
• Federate comment deletes (send, process received)
• Verify signatures of incoming requests!

[mkljczk]

Has there been any recent progress on this PR?

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Not so recently, however the features will be split into separate PRs in the near future.

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[pfefferle]

Keep!

[HammyHavoc]

This looks really interesting. I think this is really the only thing stopping me from giving it a go.

As someone who hasn't really used Mastodon much but was a huge Twitter user (over 100,000 tweets), would I be able to follow and interact with people if I used this once the feature is complete? And would I be able to login to a Mastodon client via the identity of my own site?

Apologies if I'm misunderstanding the intent of the project. I know it does a fair bit.

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@HammyHavoc This PR is very out of date, the work was largely ported to #142, and the remaining items will be added to a subsequent PR.