feat(journal): dereferenceable Note objects at /activities/:id

The Notes we emit (outbox + push delivery) use /activities/{id} as
their id, but that URL only served HTML — so Mastodon's search-fetch
of an activity URL failed, and strict instances that re-fetch pushed
objects to verify them would drop our deliveries.

- Fedify object dispatcher for Note at /activities/{id}: serves the
  same activityToNote mapping used everywhere else; 404 unless the
  activity is public AND the owner's profile is public (private owners
  don't federate, mirroring the actor).
- Content-negotiation middleware on the activity detail route, same
  pattern as the actor route: AP Accept headers short-circuit to
  Fedify, browsers get HTML.

Found during the staging soak (Mastodon showed the outbox post count
but couldn't fetch the posts).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

apps/journal/app/lib/federation-outbox.integration.test.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from "vitest";
-import { eq } from "drizzle-orm";
+import { and, eq } from "drizzle-orm";
 import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
 import { getDb } from "./db.ts";
 import { users, activities, follows } from "@trails-cool/db/schema/journal";
@@ -99,6 +99,42 @@ describe.runIf(runIntegration)("federation outbox (integration)", () => {
     await db.update(users).set({ profileVisibility: "public" }).where(eq(users.id, userId));
   });
 
+  it("serves a public activity's Note at its IRI (dereferenceable)", async () => {
+    const { handleFederationRequest } = await import("./federation.server.ts");
+    const db = getDb();
+    const [row] = await db
+      .select({ id: activities.id })
+      .from(activities)
+      .where(and(eq(activities.ownerId, userId), eq(activities.visibility, "public")))
+      .limit(1);
+    const res = await handleFederationRequest(
+      new Request(`http://localhost:3000/activities/${row!.id}`, {
+        headers: { accept: "application/activity+json" },
+      }),
+    );
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    const note = await res.json();
+    expect(note.type).toBe("Note");
+    expect(note.id).toBe(`http://localhost:3000/activities/${row!.id}`);
+    expect(note.attributedTo).toContain(`/users/${USERNAME}`);
+  });
+
+  it("404s the Note of a private activity", async () => {
+    const { handleFederationRequest } = await import("./federation.server.ts");
+    const db = getDb();
+    const [priv] = await db
+      .select({ id: activities.id })
+      .from(activities)
+      .where(and(eq(activities.ownerId, userId), eq(activities.visibility, "private")))
+      .limit(1);
+    const res = await handleFederationRequest(
+      new Request(`http://localhost:3000/activities/${priv!.id}`, {
+        headers: { accept: "application/activity+json" },
+      }),
+    );
+    expect(res.status).toBe(404);
+  });
+
   it("lists accepted remote followers as the delivery audience", async () => {
     const db = getDb();
     const { listAcceptedRemoteFollowers } = await import("./federation-delivery.server.ts");

apps/journal/app/lib/federation.server.ts

@@ -27,15 +27,15 @@
 // to wrapped types we inspect and ignore (e.g. Undo(Like)).
 import { configure, getConsoleSink } from "@logtape/logtape";
 import { createFederation, InProcessMessageQueue, type Federation } from "@fedify/fedify";
-import { Accept, Follow, Person, PropertyValue, Reject, Undo } from "@fedify/fedify/vocab";
+import { Accept, Follow, Note, Person, PropertyValue, Reject, Undo } from "@fedify/fedify/vocab";
-import { eq } from "drizzle-orm";
+import { and, eq } from "drizzle-orm";
-import { users } from "@trails-cool/db/schema/journal";
+import { activities, users } from "@trails-cool/db/schema/journal";
 import { getDb } from "./db.ts";
 import { getOrigin } from "./config.server.ts";
 import { localActorIri } from "./actor-iri.ts";
 import { PostgresKvStore } from "./federation-kv.server.ts";
 import { ensureUserKeypair, loadUserKeypair } from "./federation-keys.server.ts";
-import { activityToCreate } from "./federation-objects.server.ts";
+import { activityToCreate, activityToNote } from "./federation-objects.server.ts";
 import {
   OUTBOX_PAGE_SIZE,
   countPublicActivities,
@@ -289,6 +289,30 @@ function buildFederation(): Federation<void> {
       logger.warn({ err: error }, "federation: inbox listener error");
     });
 
+  // Dereferenceable Note objects: the Notes we emit (outbox + push
+  // delivery) use /activities/{id} as their id, so that IRI must serve
+  // the Note as activity+json. Mastodon's search-fetch of an activity
+  // URL and strict instances that re-fetch pushed objects both rely on
+  // this. Browsers keep getting HTML — the activities.$id route
+  // middleware short-circuits AP requests here.
+  federation.setObjectDispatcher(Note, "/activities/{id}", async (_ctx, values) => {
+    const db = getDb();
+    const [row] = await db
+      .select()
+      .from(activities)
+      .where(and(eq(activities.id, values.id), eq(activities.visibility, "public")))
+      .limit(1);
+    if (!row) return null;
+    const [owner] = await db
+      .select({ username: users.username, profileVisibility: users.profileVisibility })
+      .from(users)
+      .where(eq(users.id, row.ownerId))
+      .limit(1);
+    // Private owners don't federate — their content 404s like their actor.
+    if (!owner || owner.profileVisibility !== "public") return null;
+    return activityToNote(row, owner.username);
+  });
+
   // Software discovery (task 3.4, adapted): NodeInfo is the standard
   // the fediverse uses to identify server software; the trails-to-trails
   // outbound check (task 6.x) reads this from remote instances.

apps/journal/app/routes/activities.$id.tsx

@@ -4,6 +4,24 @@ import type { Route } from "./+types/activities.$id";
 import { ClientDate } from "~/components/ClientDate";
 import { ClientMap } from "~/components/ClientMap";
 import { loadActivityDetail, activityDetailAction } from "./activities.$id.server";
+import {
+  federationEnabled,
+  wantsActivityJson,
+  handleFederationRequest,
+} from "~/lib/federation.server";
+
+// Content negotiation: this URL doubles as the ActivityPub Note IRI for
+// the activity (the id our outbox/push deliveries emit). AP clients get
+// the Note object from Fedify's object dispatcher; browsers fall through
+// to the HTML page. Same pattern as the actor route (users.$username).
+export const middleware: Route.MiddlewareFunction[] = [
+  async ({ request }, next) => {
+    if (federationEnabled() && wantsActivityJson(request)) {
+      return handleFederationRequest(request);
+    }
+    return next();
+  },
+];
 
 export async function loader({ params, request }: Route.LoaderArgs) {
   return data(await loadActivityDetail(request, params.id));