Reposts with a body (commentary) were silently broken in two ways:
1. jf2ToAS2Activity() always emitted a bare Announce pointing at the
external URL (e.g. fromjason.xyz). That URL doesn't serve AP JSON,
so Mastodon couldn't fetch the object and dropped the activity from
followers' timelines — the post only appeared when explicitly searched.
2. jf2ToActivityStreams() (content negotiation / search) hard-coded the
Note content to just '🔁 <url>', completely ignoring properties.content.
Fix via patch-ap-repost-commentary.mjs (4 targeted replacements):
- jf2ToAS2Activity(): skip the Announce early-return when commentary is
present and fall through to the existing Create(Note) path instead.
Pure reposts (no body) keep the Announce behaviour unchanged.
- jf2ToAS2Activity() content block: add a repost branch that formats
the Note as '<commentary><br><br>🔁 <url>' (mirrors bookmark/like).
- jf2ToActivityStreams(): extract commentary and prepend it to the Note
content when present.
Patch registered in both postinstall and serve chains.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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