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Reply are not visible in the articles federated by Wordpress (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hello, I am doing some tests with the Wordpress federation with ActivityPub. It works very well even with Lemmy:

articles are automatically posted to the Lemmy community if mentioned
if I reply to a Lemmy account directly on the post, everything works well and my comment is also visible on the blog (example reply from Martufello: https://feddit.it/post/14612919 is also visible on the site: https://www.lealternative.net/2025/02/05/fridgey-unapplicazione-per-la-gestione-degli-ingredienti-in-cucina/)

but

however, if the user receives a reply, in this case, the reply is given by "testuser," the latter is not visible in the Wordpress article (in the article, in fact, only Martufello's first response is present.).

Is it a Lemmy bug?

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You and db0 are doing different things - he has blog that Lemmy users can interact with as if it was another Lemmy community, whereas you have a blog that you want to use to post articles into a different Lemmy community.

A reply is sent from Lemmy twice - once to the community to Announce out to its followers, and once to the person being replied to. A top-level reply will appear on the WordPress blog because it is a reply to the author. A reply to a reply won't, because the blog is not following the Lemmy community (so won't get the Announce), and the author isn't the person being replied to.

If you want a reply to a reply to also appear on WordPress, you need to treat it like Mastodon, and also Mention the original author. Here is an example that also appeared on the blog: https://lemmy.world/comment/14897939 (the reply from 'freamon')

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ok, thanks, the reason is now definitely clear to me.

I was wondering, however, if it might somehow be possible to "bypass" this issue. I have no idea how to do it technically, but I mean something like automatically inserting the author's tag in certain cases as you did, to make it more practical in terms of usability.

But perhaps, precisely because of the way it is shared, it is not possible to imagine something like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I'm not sure, either.

I can imagine, though, that if Lemmy automatically inserted the original post author in replies as a Mention, it would be indistinguishable from when it's done manually to page another user. So if you made a post as a Lemmy user, every reply in the comment chain would show up in your Notifications.