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Messages are sent with a digital signature that only the original instance could craft.
Okay so it's the lemmt server running my instance that checks it is the right user. Do you know how it is done ?
I reread your post, so it's a signature in the http call?
It should be a signature that is sent together with the ActivityPub Object. Yes, if the signature doesn't match, the content, whether a post, comment, favorite, upvote, etc... should be dropped.
Here is the source code of the library that lemmy uses to handle incoming objects and you can see that it does a call to verify the signature of the actor:
https://docs.rs/activitypub_federation/latest/src/activitypub_federation/actix_web/inbox.rs.html#18-54