Feature Request: support likes from ActivityPub and other sources

There was a request to the ActivityPub plugin that it should display likes from the Fediverse alongside likes from local users. But really it doesn’t make sense for the ActivityPub to implement its own like/dislike feature, when there are other plugins that already do this. Instead, ActivityPub allows delegating all incoming messages from the Fediverse to other relevant plugins.

I experimented with how that might look and published my results here: https://github.com/mexon/activitypub_comments_like_dislike_shim

This doesn’t require direct support for ActivityPub in the Comments Like Dislike plugin, but it does require hooks so that other plugins can add likes. So, I’d like to see those hooks implemented. Would this be possible?

Original thread here: https://social.lol/@daniel/111393357194234826