Notification emails: duplicated follower emails

[jeherve]

Email notifications for new followers were recently added to the ActivityPub plugin:
Automattic/wordpress-activitypub#1068

This is nice, but in practice that means that we now receive 2 emails for each new follower:

It would be nice if the plugins could play well with each other, and only send out a single email.

cc @pfefferle

[akirk]

Thanks for highlighting this. I suggest to remove it from the Friends plugin now that ActivityPub has it.

[akirk]

Although, I have to say that the Friends mail has more useful info, like a picture and the user description. Maybe I can augment the ActivityPub data? Shall we add a filter here, @pfefferle?

[jeherve]

If there is a way to get that additional data in the ActivityPub plugin, that would be nice indeed! Would there be a way to get that info for all ActivityPub users, even when they don't use the Friends plugin?

[akirk]

FWIW you can already today disable the e-mails in the Friends Notification settings (wp-admin/admin.php?page=friends-notification-manager):

[akirk]

I started working on this in Automattic/wordpress-activitypub#1172