nfnitloop@mastodon.social@mastodon.social 1 day ago
aha, it's: GET /api/v1/statuses/:id
The API returns an empty in_reply_to_id. Now the question is... is that because I missed providing that ID in my original reply? Or because the server lost it? 🤔
After much more spelunking, it seems to be that:
1) The author of a status I replied to deleted the original status.
2) Instead of giving me back my status with its original in_reply_to_id, Mastodon rewrites history to make it appear as if I I'm just talking to myself. 😠
I was only able to verify this because I have my own backup of my mastodon history, which Mastodon can not rewrite.
This is the kind of thing that made me originally write #Diskuto and now it's making me want to work on the next version.
I have mixed feelings on that. 😂