From 48f3977ff76fc943b060dba02524b0bd4a4da584 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kaniini <kaniini@dereferenced.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 02:37:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] relay: don't relay mastodon announces

relayed mastodon announces are likely to result in fake direction issues, which will
result in the author seeing side effects from the relay.
---
 relay/actor.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/relay/actor.py b/relay/actor.py
index 4e010d7..bc8c680 100644
--- a/relay/actor.py
+++ b/relay/actor.py
@@ -159,6 +159,10 @@ def distill_object_id(activity):
 async def handle_relay(actor, data, request):
     object_id = distill_object_id(data)
 
+    # don't relay mastodon announces -- causes LRP fake direction issues
+    if data['type'] == 'Announce' and length(data.get('cc', [])) > 0:
+        return
+
     message = {
         "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
         "type": "Announce",