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Nice to see a blogpost on the Mastodon blog about implementing a basic ActivityPub server https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/
(Though technically webfinger isn't needed for activitypub, but it is for mastodon interop!)
@cwebber I'm curious how subscribing between different AP server implementations is going to work UX-wise. Mastodon, Pleroma and peertube all work with the user @ domain webfinger scheme, but what identifiers shall be used for implementations lacking webfinger?
@schmittlauch @cwebber You can use Mastodon without WebFinger *today*!
Just search for https://toot.matereal.eu/users/schmittlauch instead of @schmittlauch.
Just search for https://toot.matereal.eu/users/schmittlauch instead of @schmittlauch.
@schmittlauch @cwebber Or just click someone's username in a toot. That's also handled without any acct: URL involved. Basically WebFinger is only necessary for the case where you want to look someone up by @ identifier, and maybe even only for the case where you want to do that, and the server didn't already see a message from them.
