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-# Chats
-
-Chats are a way to represent an IM-style conversation between two actors. They are not the same as direct messages and they are not `Status`es, even though they have a lot in common.
-
-## Why Chats?
-
-There are no 'visibility levels' in ActivityPub, their definition is purely a Mastodon convention. Direct Messaging between users on the fediverse has mostly been modeled by using ActivityPub addressing following Mastodon conventions on normal `Note` objects. In this case, a 'direct message' would be a message that has no followers addressed and also does not address the special public actor, but just the recipients in the `to` field. It would still be a `Note` and is presented with other `Note`s as a `Status` in the API.
-
-This is an awkward setup for a few reasons:
-
-- As DMs generally still follow the usual `Status` conventions, it is easy to accidentally pull somebody into a DM thread by mentioning them. (e.g. "I hate @badguy so much")
-- It is possible to go from a publicly addressed `Status` to a DM reply, back to public, then to a 'followers only' reply, and so on. This can be become very confusing, as it is unclear which user can see which part of the conversation.
-- The standard `Status` format of implicit addressing also leads to rather ugly results if you try to display the messages as a chat, because all the recipients are always mentioned by name in the message.
-- As direct messages are posted with the same api call (and usually same frontend component) as public messages, accidentally making a public message private or vice versa can happen easily. Client bugs can also lead to this, accidentally making private messages public.
-
-As a measure to improve this situation, the `Conversation` concept and related Akkoma extensions were introduced. While it made it possible to work around a few of the issues, many of the problems remained and it didn't see much adoption because it was too complicated to use correctly.
-
-## Chats explained
-For this reasons, Chats are a new and different entity, both in the API as well as in ActivityPub. A quick overview:
-
-- Chats are meant to represent an instant message conversation between two actors. For now these are only 1-on-1 conversations, but the other actor can be a group in the future.
-- Chat messages have the ActivityPub type `ChatMessage`. They are not `Note`s. Servers that don't understand them will just drop them.
-- The only addressing allowed in `ChatMessage`s is one single ActivityPub actor in the `to` field.
-- There's always only one Chat between two actors. If you start chatting with someone and later start a 'new' Chat, the old Chat will be continued.
-- `ChatMessage`s are posted with a different api, making it very hard to accidentally send a message to the wrong person.
-- `ChatMessage`s don't show up in the existing timelines.
-- Chats can never go from private to public. They are always private between the two actors.
-
-## Caveats
-
-- Chats are NOT E2E encrypted (yet). Security is still the same as email.
-
-## API
-
-In general, the way to send a `ChatMessage` is to first create a `Chat`, then post a message to that `Chat`. `Group`s will later be supported by making them a sub-type of `Account`.
-
-This is the overview of using the API. The API is also documented via OpenAPI, so you can view it and play with it by pointing SwaggerUI or a similar OpenAPI tool to `https://yourinstance.tld/api/openapi`.
-
-### Creating or getting a chat.
-
-To create or get an existing Chat for a certain recipient (identified by Account ID)
-you can call:
-
-`POST /api/v1/pleroma/chats/by-account-id/:account_id`
-
-The account id is the normal FlakeId of the user
-```
-POST /api/v1/pleroma/chats/by-account-id/someflakeid
-```
-
-If you already have the id of a chat, you can also use
-
-```
-GET /api/v1/pleroma/chats/:id
-```
-
-There will only ever be ONE Chat for you and a given recipient, so this call
-will return the same Chat if you already have one with that user.
-
-Returned data:
-
-```json
-{
- "account": {
- "id": "someflakeid",
- "username": "somenick",
- ...
- },
- "id" : "1",
- "unread" : 2,
- "last_message" : {...}, // The last message in that chat
- "updated_at": "2020-04-21T15:11:46.000Z"
-}
-```
-
-### Marking a chat as read
-
-To mark a number of messages in a chat up to a certain message as read, you can use
-
-`POST /api/v1/pleroma/chats/:id/read`
-
-
-Parameters:
-- last_read_id: Given this id, all chat messages until this one will be marked as read. Required.
-
-
-Returned data:
-
-```json
-{
- "account": {
- "id": "someflakeid",
- "username": "somenick",
- ...
- },
- "id" : "1",
- "unread" : 0,
- "updated_at": "2020-04-21T15:11:46.000Z"
-}
-```
-
-### Marking a single chat message as read
-
-To set the `unread` property of a message to `false`
-
-`POST /api/v1/pleroma/chats/:id/messages/:message_id/read`
-
-Returned data:
-
-The modified chat message
-
-### Getting a list of Chats
-
-`GET /api/v1/pleroma/chats`
-
-This will return a list of chats that you have been involved in, sorted by their
-last update (so new chats will be at the top).
-
-Parameters:
-
-- with_muted: Include chats from muted users (boolean).
-
-Returned data:
-
-```json
-[
- {
- "account": {
- "id": "someflakeid",
- "username": "somenick",
- ...
- },
- "id" : "1",
- "unread" : 2,
- "last_message" : {...}, // The last message in that chat
- "updated_at": "2020-04-21T15:11:46.000Z"
- }
-]
-```
-
-The recipient of messages that are sent to this chat is given by their AP ID.
-No pagination is implemented for now.
-
-### Getting the messages for a Chat
-
-For a given Chat id, you can get the associated messages with
-
-`GET /api/v1/pleroma/chats/:id/messages`
-
-This will return all messages, sorted by most recent to least recent. The usual
-pagination options are implemented.
-
-Returned data:
-
-```json
-[
- {
- "account_id": "someflakeid",
- "chat_id": "1",
- "content": "Check this out :firefox:",
- "created_at": "2020-04-21T15:11:46.000Z",
- "emojis": [
- {
- "shortcode": "firefox",
- "static_url": "https://dontbulling.me/emoji/Firefox.gif",
- "url": "https://dontbulling.me/emoji/Firefox.gif",
- "visible_in_picker": false
- }
- ],
- "id": "13",
- "unread": true
- },
- {
- "account_id": "someflakeid",
- "chat_id": "1",
- "content": "Whats' up?",
- "created_at": "2020-04-21T15:06:45.000Z",
- "emojis": [],
- "id": "12",
- "unread": false,
- "idempotency_key": "75442486-0874-440c-9db1-a7006c25a31f"
- }
-]
-```
-
-- idempotency_key: The copy of the `idempotency-key` HTTP request header that can be used for optimistic message sending. Included only during the first few minutes after the message creation.
-
-### Posting a chat message
-
-Posting a chat message for given Chat id works like this:
-
-`POST /api/v1/pleroma/chats/:id/messages`
-
-Parameters:
-- content: The text content of the message. Optional if media is attached.
-- media_id: The id of an upload that will be attached to the message.
-
-Currently, no formatting beyond basic escaping and emoji is implemented.
-
-Returned data:
-
-```json
-{
- "account_id": "someflakeid",
- "chat_id": "1",
- "content": "Check this out :firefox:",
- "created_at": "2020-04-21T15:11:46.000Z",
- "emojis": [
- {
- "shortcode": "firefox",
- "static_url": "https://dontbulling.me/emoji/Firefox.gif",
- "url": "https://dontbulling.me/emoji/Firefox.gif",
- "visible_in_picker": false
- }
- ],
- "id": "13",
- "unread": false
-}
-```
-
-### Deleting a chat message
-
-Deleting a chat message for given Chat id works like this:
-
-`DELETE /api/v1/pleroma/chats/:chat_id/messages/:message_id`
-
-Returned data is the deleted message.
-
-### Notifications
-
-There's a new `pleroma:chat_mention` notification, which has this form. It is not given out in the notifications endpoint by default, you need to explicitly request it with `include_types[]=pleroma:chat_mention`:
-
-```json
-{
- "id": "someid",
- "type": "pleroma:chat_mention",
- "account": { ... } // User account of the sender,
- "chat_message": {
- "chat_id": "1",
- "id": "10",
- "content": "Hello",
- "account_id": "someflakeid",
- "unread": false
- },
- "created_at": "somedate"
-}
-```
-
-### Streaming
-
-There is an additional `user:pleroma_chat` stream. Incoming chat messages will make the current chat be sent to this `user` stream. The `event` of an incoming chat message is `pleroma:chat_update`. The payload is the updated chat with the incoming chat message in the `last_message` field.
-
-### Web Push
-
-If you want to receive push messages for this type, you'll need to add the `pleroma:chat_mention` type to your alerts in the push subscription.
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