@helene iirc the AP spec required servers to continue processing types that they don't recognize as best as they can. Mastodon could extract the name and content of ForgeFed ticket objects and render them as posts, for instance.
Type arrays are another solution, but Mastodon doesn't support them and go-ap, the library Gitea is using for federation, also doesn't support them the last time I checked.
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