Comment replies via Federation: include @mentions in the JSON representation of the reply

[jeherve]

What

When clicking reply to reply to a comment added via Federation, it would be nice if the handle of the person you're replying to, and maybe even the handles of the all the people @-mentioned in the comment you're replying to, were added to the JSON representation of the reply.

Why

When on a WordPress site, one does not expect to see every reply to a comment start with @person. Comment threading (when it is enabled) makes it very clear that the reply is in response to another comment.
Outside of the WordPress context, however, folks have gotten used to seeing @person in front of the replies to a post. It makes it easy to understand who is involved in a conversation.

Here is an example of a typical conversation on the Fediverse.

• I posted an update (via a WP site)
• Donncha replied via the Fediverse, thus prepending @jeremy to his reply.
• Matthias replied to Donncha on the Fediverse, thus prepending both @jeremy and @donncha to his reply.
• At that point, I replied to Matthias from my WordPress site since all the replies above had been federated. I think it would be fair to expect my reply to follow the same syntax. Those @mentions do not need to appear on the site itself, but I think it would be nice for them to appear on the Fediverse.

How

Related conversation: p1723189722720219-slack-C04TJ8P900J

[ethicalrevolution]

Agreed. Without them there I had assumed it was a bug and people wouldn’t be receiving my replies unless I typed out their Fediverse handle (which I’ve been doing up to now, having just learned they do get tagged!)