diff --git a/server/lib/activitypub/process/process-create.ts b/server/lib/activitypub/process/process-create.ts
index e8f5ade06..75f07d131 100644
--- a/server/lib/activitypub/process/process-create.ts
+++ b/server/lib/activitypub/process/process-create.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { ActorModel } from '../../../models/activitypub/actor'
 import { VideoAbuseModel } from '../../../models/video/video-abuse'
 import { VideoCommentModel } from '../../../models/video/video-comment'
 import { getOrCreateActorAndServerAndModel } from '../actor'
-import { resolveThread } from '../video-comments'
+import { addVideoComment, resolveThread } from '../video-comments'
 import { getOrCreateVideoAndAccountAndChannel } from '../videos'
 import { forwardActivity, forwardVideoRelatedActivity } from '../send/utils'
 
@@ -120,48 +120,19 @@ async function processCreateVideoAbuse (actor: ActorModel, videoAbuseToCreateDat
 }
 
 async function processCreateVideoComment (byActor: ActorModel, activity: ActivityCreate) {
-  const comment = activity.object as VideoCommentObject
+  const commentObject = activity.object as VideoCommentObject
   const byAccount = byActor.Account
 
   if (!byAccount) throw new Error('Cannot create video comment with the non account actor ' + byActor.url)
 
-  const { video, parents } = await resolveThread(comment.inReplyTo)
+  const { video } = await resolveThread(commentObject.inReplyTo)
 
-  return sequelizeTypescript.transaction(async t => {
-    let originCommentId = null
-    let inReplyToCommentId = null
+  const { created } = await addVideoComment(video, commentObject.id)
 
-    if (parents.length !== 0) {
-      const parent = parents[0]
+  if (video.isOwned() && created === true) {
+    // Don't resend the activity to the sender
+    const exceptions = [ byActor ]
 
-      originCommentId = parent.getThreadId()
-      inReplyToCommentId = parent.id
-    }
-
-    // This is a new thread
-    const objectToCreate = {
-      url: comment.id,
-      text: comment.content,
-      originCommentId,
-      inReplyToCommentId,
-      videoId: video.id,
-      accountId: byAccount.id
-    }
-
-    const options = {
-      where: {
-        url: objectToCreate.url
-      },
-      defaults: objectToCreate,
-      transaction: t
-    }
-    const [ ,created ] = await VideoCommentModel.findOrCreate(options)
-
-    if (video.isOwned() && created === true) {
-      // Don't resend the activity to the sender
-      const exceptions = [ byActor ]
-
-      await forwardVideoRelatedActivity(activity, t, exceptions, video)
-    }
-  })
+    await forwardVideoRelatedActivity(activity, undefined, exceptions, video)
+  }
 }
diff --git a/server/lib/activitypub/video-comments.ts b/server/lib/activitypub/video-comments.ts
index beff557bc..ffbd3a64e 100644
--- a/server/lib/activitypub/video-comments.ts
+++ b/server/lib/activitypub/video-comments.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ async function videoCommentActivityObjectToDBAttributes (video: VideoModel, acto
 
   // If this is not a reply to the video (thread), create or get the parent comment
   if (video.url !== comment.inReplyTo) {
-    const [ parent ] = await addVideoComment(video, comment.inReplyTo)
+    const { comment: parent } = await addVideoComment(video, comment.inReplyTo)
     if (!parent) {
       logger.warn('Cannot fetch or get parent comment %s of comment %s.', comment.inReplyTo, comment.id)
       return undefined
@@ -55,22 +55,24 @@ async function addVideoComment (videoInstance: VideoModel, commentUrl: string) {
 
   if (sanitizeAndCheckVideoCommentObject(body) === false) {
     logger.debug('Remote video comment JSON is not valid.', { body })
-    return undefined
+    return { created: false }
   }
 
   const actorUrl = body.attributedTo
-  if (!actorUrl) return []
+  if (!actorUrl) return { created: false }
 
   const actor = await getOrCreateActorAndServerAndModel(actorUrl)
   const entry = await videoCommentActivityObjectToDBAttributes(videoInstance, actor, body)
-  if (!entry) return []
+  if (!entry) return { created: false }
 
-  return VideoCommentModel.findOrCreate({
+  const [ comment, created ] = await VideoCommentModel.findOrCreate({
     where: {
       url: body.id
     },
     defaults: entry
   })
+
+  return { comment, created }
 }
 
 async function resolveThread (url: string, comments: VideoCommentModel[] = []) {
@@ -91,6 +93,7 @@ async function resolveThread (url: string, comments: VideoCommentModel[] = []) {
 
   try {
     // Maybe it's a reply to a video?
+    // If yes, it's done: we resolved all the thread
     const { video } = await getOrCreateVideoAndAccountAndChannel(url)
 
     if (comments.length !== 0) {
diff --git a/server/tests/api/videos/index.ts b/server/tests/api/videos/index.ts
index 9f1230767..bc66a7824 100644
--- a/server/tests/api/videos/index.ts
+++ b/server/tests/api/videos/index.ts
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import './video-blacklist'
 import './video-blacklist-management'
 import './video-captions'
 import './video-channels'
-import './video-comme'
+import './video-comments'
 import './video-description'
-import './video-impo'
+import './video-imports'
 import './video-nsfw'
 import './video-privacy'
 import './video-schedule-update'