GitHub: backfeed emoji reactions on comments

[tantek]

In Bridgy backfeed documentation it says "Bridgy detects and sends webmentions for … GitHub comments and emoji reactions on your issues and pull requests" which would seem to imply that Bridgy does not yet send webmentions for emoji reactions (reacjis) on POSSEd comments on GitHub issues and pull requests, e.g. the reacjis on this comment POSSEd by Bridgy.

According to GitHub API docs: List reactions for an issue comment it looks like this information is available in the GitHub API. It would be great if Bridgy could add support for backfeeding reacjis on POSSEd comments! Thanks for your consideration.

(Originally published at: https://tantek.com/2021/291/b1/bridgy-backfeed-reacji-on-comments)

[snarfed]

Looked into this a bit. It will take some work under the hood to make Bridgy backfeed to comments as well as original posts, which it doesn't currently do. Doable! But substantially more work than just fetching reactions on comments.

(Twitter seems like an exception, but due to Twitter's data model that everything is a tweet, replies are also handled as original posts.)