[chore] Refactor AP authentication, other small bits of tidying up (#1874)

internal/federation/federatingdb/reject.go

@@ -40,12 +40,9 @@ func (f *federatingDB) Reject(ctx context.Context, reject vocab.ActivityStreamsR
 		l.Debug("entering Reject")
 	}
 
-	receivingAccount, _ := extractFromCtx(ctx)
-	if receivingAccount == nil {
-		// If the receiving account or federator channel wasn't set on the context, that means this request didn't pass
-		// through the API, but came from inside GtS as the result of another activity on this instance. That being so,
-		// we can safely just ignore this activity, since we know we've already processed it elsewhere.
-		return nil
+	receivingAccount, _, internal := extractFromCtx(ctx)
+	if internal {
+		return nil // Already processed.
 	}
 
 	rejectObject := reject.GetActivityStreamsObject()