Post by @brecht@social.coop

@jwz The way to handle replies that you propose is included as an option in the ActivityPub spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-replies, so the spec isn't what's holding back Mastodon to implement this.

@brecht @jwz Yeah I'm not surprised that ActivityPub can implement this even though Mastodon (currently) doesn't. AP seems very 'tools not rules'.