ok, less than 20 minutes after hearing about the Alex drama, here is my take:
Does mentionless replies break the ActivityPub spec? Let's find out...
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No! No they don't! Alex is following the ActivityPub spec that we all decided to use!
"But it broke my implementation!"
No, it exposed a bug in your implementation. Were you seriously parsing messages from remote servers for addressing information?
I will now accept my egging for missing some glaring thing I missed.
btw, what were you expecting when/if Some Enormous Fucking Website exposes an ActivityPub endpoint for their past 10-20 years of post data (YouTube, maybe) and the comments are replies to the video that **don't have mentions of the video author's username**? Or simply, all the posts don't have mentions for every user involved in the thread because that's Twitter behavior that started from Twitter and only makes sense on Twitter and Twitter clones?
