@ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social I think there’s no way to tell Mastodon/Activity Pub actors to set a specific inReplyTo when repying. I think (correct me if I’m wrong) the default behaviour for Mastodon and pretty much all Activity Pub implementations (besides Yarn.social) is to “fork”.

@ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social Hah, hardly, the specs (AP, A2S, HTTPSig, et all) are just a few of the specs at play. WebFinger and HTTPSig are probably the more straightforward ones. It’s the fact that Mastodon existed before Activity Pub and then kind of went and did its own thing (somewhat) that makes things hard. Like the fact we have to translate Twts to HTML but a specialised form of it, with Microformats (mf2) embedded for mentions. Not sure if there are other things we should be doing, tags maybe? But that’s a problem for another day/weekend 😅