If the id of another activity type was used
it would show the post referenced by the activity
but wrongly attributing it to the activity actor
instead of the actual author.
E.g. ids of like activities can be obtained from
pagiantion info of the favourites endpoint.
For all other activity types the id would need to be guessed
which is considered practically infeasible for Flake UUIDs.
This should’ve been mostly harmless in practice, since:
- since the activity has the same context as the original post,
both the original and misattributed duplicate will show up in the
same thread
- only posts liked by a user can be misattributed to them,
presumably making it hard/impossible to associate someone with
content they disagree with
- by default only the liking user themself can view their like history
and therefore obtain IDs for their like activities.
Notably though, there is a user seting to allow anyone to browse
ones like history and therefore obtain like IDs. However, since
akkoma-fe has no support for actually displaying those, there might
be no actual users of this features.
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