Subscribing to an individual post via the bookmarklet, or directly, is technically valid but probably does not do what the user wants.

[alecmuffett]

So I visited https://mastodon.green/@gcluley/109643227515676255 and used the Add Friend bookmarklet.

I then hit "Quick Subscribe".

Quick subscribe did not do what I expected, it just dropped me into the normal feed-adding dialogue.

Then I noticed that it had subscribed me to the feed for the individual post, rather than for the user.

https://DELETIA/wp-admin/admin.php?page=add-friend&parser=activitypub&preview=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.green%2Fusers%2Fgcluley%2Fstatuses%2F109643227515676255&_wp_http_referer=%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin.php%3Fpage%3Dadd-friend%26url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmastodon.green%252F%2540gcluley%252F109643227515676255&_wpnonce=88febe31ab

There are two or three ways to address this.

I suspect that this behaviour is legitimate but unexpected, so my suspicion is that either the Bookmarklet OR ELSE, AND PROBABLY BETTER the feed-adding page, should tell the user that they have asked to subscribe to @[email protected]/something and that maybe in this instance they meant to subscribe to @[email protected], giving them a clickable link to fix that / to restart the "add" process?

Version:

+ git show HEAD
commit 7aec2d72a3bf897788a57f760b3302127cb03603
Author: Alex Kirk <[email protected]>
Date:   Sat Jan 7 09:29:30 2023 +0100

[akirk]

Thank for flagging. I created the bookmarklet before ActivityPub support. It's intended to grab the RSS feeds from the <link> HTML tag, it probably just needs a bit of additional handling in the ActivityPub parser's discover_available_feeds function.