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WIP: a bit more work on repeat/reshare

M. Dent requested to merge dentm42/core:repeatreshare-announcements into dev

An attempt at the repeat/reshare fetching logic.

SCENARIO: Jim and Karla are friends on ZAP (Zot6). Jim is also friends with Laura on Hubzilla (dev). Karla posts an interesting image that Jim thinks his friends would be interested in, so Jim "shares" the post. The SHARED post is distributed to all of Jim's friends and will show up in Laura's stream.

There remain a couple of problems with this implementation:

  1. Comments

    • In the above scenario, Jim and Laura's comments will be seen by everyone. Karla's comments will only be seen by Jim. Laura will be unable to comment on the post.
    • RE-sharing by Laura to non-Zot networks may result in unknown and unexpected behavior.

  2. Sharing in the same way TO ZAP does not work

    • Using the above scenario. A post originating on Laura's channel shared by Jim will not reach Karla. Likewise, even with Hyperdrive enabled, comments by Jim do not propagate Laura's post to Karla. It is likely that this is a problem within ZAP/OSADA and no additional changes will need to be made to Hubzilla to get this to work.
Edited by M. Dent

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