> ActivityPub does not handle old posts. That is incorrect. Mastodon is the one doesn't handle old posts[1], because they insist on presenting to the user only

> ActivityPub does not handle old posts. That is incorrect. Mastodon is the one doesn't handle old posts[1], because they insist on presenting to the user only what has already been federated with it. See [2] for a more in-depth explanation. If they would use the protocol as intended, and actually perform requests on the remote Outbox collection when the user wants to view the posts of a remote actor, there would be no issue. [1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14017 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14017 [2] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14017#issuecomment-642177335 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14017#issuecomme...