@caesar yeah, that's a planned feature.
Current obstacles:
1. No Gitea UI for federated commenting
2. Mastodon doesn't seem to understand what ForgeFed tickets are
3. We need to serve Gitea issues and comments as ActivityStreams objects at some API endpoint (this one is easy to implement)
4. Mastodon has threads but Gitea doesn't
For now, we're prioritizing Gitea<->Gitea federation, but interoperability with the entire fediverse would definitely be awesome.
@ta180m Cool! In response to your points:
1. I assume I wouldn't need to interact with a Gitea UI to comment from Mastodon or another fedi app?
2. I guess I assumed that by being an ActivityPub extension, basic features like following and replying would be automatically interoperable - is that not the case?
3. Ah, I guess that's probably the main reason then? (I need to familiarise myself with the specs more. As you can probably tell I don't know a lot about ActivityPub...)