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nfnitloop@mastodon.social@mastodon.social to general@activitypub.space
I'm reading through some of my #Mastodon post/repost/reply history to find something I thought I'd linked to a while ago.
I've noticed a couple replies seem to have lost the thread they replied to. Is that a bug with today's 5.0 update?
If I could "view source" on a post to see the underlying #ActivityPub event, I might be able to find the thread myself, but I guess the UI doesn't provide that? Anyone remember the API to fetch that? 🤔
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? 🤔
nfnitloop@mastodon.social@mastodon.social 17 hours ago 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.
nfnitloop@mastodon.social@mastodon.social 17 hours ago 
@liaizon Here is my reply.