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Experiment Report
I’ve been conducting some edge-case tests to explore the behavior of federated replies within WordPress + ActivityPub.
Issue:
When replying to a federated post from my own WordPress instance using a Federated Reply Block, it doesn’t seem to work as expected.
I suspect this might be due to a structural mismatch — the reply is created as a post
when it probably should be stored as a comment
within WordPress.
Test Example:
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Original federated post:
https://kowporg.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/test-gatherpress-cardpress/ -
Federated reply to the above post:
https://kowporg.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/self-fedi-reply-markdown/
This was an intentional extreme use-case test to see how the system handles unconventional scenarios.
Would appreciate any thoughts or advice from the maintainers on whether this behavior is expected, or if there might be a way to better manage reply-type posts in this context.
Thanks a lot!
When leaving a federated reply post using the Federated Reply Block on one of my own federated posts, the reply should ideally appear as a comment attached to the original post as well. However, this does not work as expected at the moment.
For testing purposes, I'm intentionally using this in an extreme and unconventional way to explore edge cases.
It seems that the reply is being created as a post
but is not additionally stored or associated as a comment
on the original post, which creates a somewhat inconsistent structure.
Would love to hear thoughts on whether this is a limitation by design or something worth adjusting in the data model.