Comments left by mastodon do not get pushed to lemmy

[db0]

Quick summary

When leaving a comment to a WP post via mastodon, if that post has been federated to lemmy already, the WP comment won't be sent to the lemmy "community".

Steps to reproduce

I opened this blogpost: https://dbzer0.com/blog/this-blog-is-now-federated-natively-to-lemmy/

It got federated to lemmy here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/31734668

I left one comment from lemmy, which federated back to WP

I then replied to that comment via mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@db0/113503918837384265

The comment appears in wordpress, correctly threaded bellow the lemmy comment. However it does not appear in the lemmy community.

What you expected to happen

Lemmy communities normally send through any comments received to all their subscribing instances. In mastodon it thus appears as if they're "boosting" all their comment. Something similar should happen in this plugin as well.

What actually happened

The comment from mastodon does not sync to lemmy.

Impact

All

Available workarounds?

No but the platform is still usable

Logs or notes

No response

[pfefferle]

You have to report that issue to Mastodon and/or Lemmy then, because WordPress is not involved in that scenario! Mastodon directly sends the reply to all recipients.

[update]

...or maybe let me think about this a bit first 🤔

[db0]

I think the way it works in lemmy proper is that when a community gets a new comment, the instance owning that community also pushes it to other subscribed instances. So I can't imagine WP failing to do the same is a lemmy issue.

@Nutomic, thoughts?

[Nutomic]

Correct, it should be like this: Mastodon sends Create/Note to Wordpress, then Wordpress wraps it in Announce and sends the Announce/Create/Note activity to all followers.

[pfefferle]

OK, THEN it is a WordPress issue 😏

Thanks @Nutomic 👍

[obenland]

@pfefferle What would be the best way to solve this? Happy to take a stab at this

[pfefferle]

Outbox! 😉