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how do *key and mastodon subscribe to a relay based just on the inbox URI? anyone know off the top of their head? if you do an http GET to a relay inbox URI it gives you:
{
"@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
"id": "https://rel.re/inbox",
"totalItems": 1617332,
"type": "OrderedCollection"
}
ie., there's no obvious way of linking back to the relay actor https://rel.re/actor based on the inbox URI https://rel.re/inbox
@dumpsterqueer i haven't looked at this code for so long
but Mastodon just sends a Follow to the inbox, the catch is that it does not Follow the relay, but the public ActivityStreams collection instead! that's a weird one
@dumpsterqueer absolutely not cursed (really cursed)
@Claire yeah that's really dreadful, but it is what it is i suppose! when it sends activities to a relay, it just sends the original Create to the relay inbox via the outbox of the instance service actor right?
@dumpsterqueer it sends the Create as it would do for any other inbox, so it signs with the actual author
@Claire 
okay... so it "subscribes" (ie., follows) with the instance actor, but sends as other actors from the instance? so it's up to the relay to look at whether the Mastodon instance actor follows them, and if so, accept the Create from the other actor on that instance?
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