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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?
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