Muting & Blocking with author urls

[grantcodes]

The spec mentions "hiding all posts with the muted user's profile URL", but what happens if the server cannot parse a url for the author?

I suppose it would be very difficult to block an author if they do not have a url associated with them.

It would either be worth documenting what to do if there is no author url, or provide another method for blocking the author.

[jalcine]

I'm replying to this because I'm looking into it myself for Lwa and I've taken a very aggressive approach to not accept or handle posts whose authorship information can't be determined. Like at worst, it falls back on classic <meta>, OpenGraph, JSON-LD information. So some sort of an author can be parsed.

That's all to say that this leans on that the Microsub server's ability to determine authorship should be a deciding factor if a post is accepted to be in a feed.