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@jeroenpraat because there can only be one! Every object has exactly one identifier, that is supposed to be unique and not change. There's only place for one, and if you...

> > finding out a way to move from an ActivityPub identifier to another while breaking the least amount of stuff. > > * HTTP 301 from old to new,...

> What I mean is to have two, one active and one non-active for future use. Yes but no, that doesn't make more sense, you can't declare an alternate “inactive”...

This seems to occur because the page is too large for Mastodon. Mastodon will only load pages of up to 1MB (excluding any linked resource).

Parsing truncated documents is an interesting idea, although I wonder if there are things we need to be careful about. For instance, it appears that if the document is truncated...

> I think nokogiri handles unclosed attributes just fine. From rails console: Except we're using the HTML parser, not the HTML5 parser: ``` irb(main):001:0> Nokogiri::HTML('

Yeah, this is because to Mastodon, those are regular links, Mastodon does not attach mention tags to those, neither does it store them locally.

> The ActivityPub actor JSON does contain mentions and hashtags metadata. I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I see code for hashtags but not mentions.

Sorry I got sidetracked and forgot about this PR. I think the issue has been addressed by this trio of PRs: #29384 #29417 #29456

From what I understand, you suggest using the internal account identifier for all URLs in Mastodon. This would indeed have the advantage of allowing the username part to change. However,...