Found this helpful resource by Ben Boyter ( @boyter): a collection of sequence diagrams explaining how #ActivityPub/ #WebFinger works in practice—covering post creation, follows, boosts, deletions, and user migration.

If you're trying to implement ActivityPub, the spec can be frustratingly vague, and different servers do things differently. This aims to be a “clean room” reference for getting federation right.

https://github.com/boyter/activitypub

#fediverse #fedidev

Found this helpful resource by Ben Boyter ( @boyter): a collection of sequence diagrams explaining how #ActivityPub/ #WebFinger works in practice—covering post creation, follows, boosts, deletions, and user migration.

If you're trying to implement ActivityPub, the spec can be frustratingly vague, and different servers do things differently. This aims to be a “clean room” reference for getting federation right.

https://github.com/boyter/activitypub

#fediverse #fedidev

Found this helpful resource by Ben Boyter ( @boyter): a collection of sequence diagrams explaining how #ActivityPub/ #WebFinger works in practice—covering post creation, follows, boosts, deletions, and user migration.

If you're trying to implement ActivityPub, the spec can be frustratingly vague, and different servers do things differently. This aims to be a “clean room” reference for getting federation right.

https://github.com/boyter/activitypub

#fediverse #fedidev

sketched a little thing for april fools last year, thought it was a little to chaotic, but it keeps coming up as useful

dwebFinger 🤙

https://hedgedoc.socialweb.coop/s/LwyM-4-w5#

@blaine wdyt? :P

#WebFinger #dweb #ActivityPub #Fediverse #dwebFinger

In #WebFinger, are there any relations that use the template property instead of the href property, excluding the http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe relation?

#fedidev

On October 2, 2013, GNU social developer MMN-o (Mikael Nordfeldth) published a blog piece announcing that they'd rolled out a change to their WebFinger implementation, adding backwards-compatible support for the RFC7033 version;

"Plus of course the former RFC6415 (Web Host Metadata), which StatusNet supports (but only XRD format)."

https://web.archive.org/web/20160722114258/https://blog.mmn-o.se/2013/10/02/gnu-social-now-supports-webfinger-rfc7033/

For those who don't know, masrodon.social was created to federate with #GnuSocial servers.

#WebFinger#StatusNet

"That's the irony of what Blaine did when he created WebFinger. It was supposed to support multiple! It wasn't supposed to just be this is your fediverse address, it was supposed to be, here's how you find all the different account of information about me, and different things."

@rabble, 2025

https://wedistribute.org/podcast/s2e3-rabble-from-nos-social/

So ... WF is meant to facilitate something like Libravatar, where all roads lead back to a canonical profile? Hmm ...

#identity#PortableIdentity#WebFinger

Where is the #Fediverse " #handle" syntax, @name@example.com, formally defined? I don't see it in the W3C #ActivityPub spec, nor in #RFC7565, the #Webfinger 'acct' URI scheme spec. Is it a #Mastodon convention which became universal? I am writing software to study handles, and I would rather base it on a spec than a social convention.

Where is the #Fediverse " #handle" syntax, @name@example.com, formally defined? I don't see it in the W3C #ActivityPub spec, nor in #RFC7565, the #Webfinger 'acct' URI scheme spec. Is it a #Mastodon convention which became universal? I am writing software to study handles, and I would rather base it on a spec than a social convention.

🎉 Huge shoutout to two amazing contributors from Korea's #OSSCA program who've made excellent contributions to #Fedify!

👏 @gaebalgom tackled a tricky terminal compatibility issue in PR #282, fixing the fedify node command's favicon display on terminal emulators without truecolor support (#168). His solution elegantly detects terminal capabilities and falls back to 256-color mode when needed—ensuring a great experience across different environments.

🌟 @joonnot enhanced Fedify's #WebFinger functionality in PR #281 by adding a configurable maxRedirection option to the lookupWebFinger() function (#248). He transformed a hardcoded limitation into a flexible, user-customizable parameter while maintaining perfect backward compatibility.

Both delivered thoughtful, well-implemented solutions that showcase the quality of contributions coming from the OSSCA program. Welcome to the Fedify community!

#ActivityPub #opensource #fedidev