wordpress-activitypub Profiles with emojis go to spam?

Quick summary

Whenever I comment on Mastodon on a post that has come via an Activity Pub-federated Wordpress post my comment goes to spam in Wordpress. The only difference I can see in my profile and others which don't go to spam is that my Mastodon profile name contains emojis.

Steps to reproduce

My Mastodon profile: https://climatejustice.social/@ethicalrevolution

If I comment on any post on any of three websites which use the AP plugin the comment goes to the spam in Wordpress comments.

Site owner impact

Fewer than 20% of the total website/platform users

Severity

Moderate

What other impact(s) does this issue have?

No response

If a workaround is available, please outline it here.

No response

Feb 20 '25 08:02 ethicalrevolution

What spam plugin do you use?

Feb 20 '25 10:02 pfefferle

Akismet

Feb 20 '25 12:02 ethicalrevolution

Then let's ping the Akismet folks.

Feb 20 '25 12:02 pfefferle

Ace ... Is that something I need to follow up on or do you mean you will do so?

Feb 20 '25 21:02 ethicalrevolution

☺️

I will see if I can ping the team internally!

Feb 21 '25 15:02 pfefferle

Did you have any luck getting anything from them? - All my comments still go to spam - Akismet doesn't 'learn' by me unspamming them. I've also recently noticed another genuine comment go to spam from a different user who also had an emoji in their name.

Mar 14 '25 22:03 ethicalrevolution

This issue is stale because it has been open 120 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 5 days.

Jul 13 '25 02:07 github-actions[bot]