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Ditching the webfinger requirement #17030 While useful, Webfinger is not part of the ActivityPub specification itself, and the ad-hoc mechanism from going from an ActivityPub actor URI to a canonical acct: URI is pretty clunky.

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Ditching the webfinger requirement #17030 While useful, Webfinger is not part of the ActivityPub specification itself, and the ad-hoc mechanism from going from an ActivityPub actor URI to a canonical acct: URI is pretty clunky.
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (reiver@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 08:36:38 JST @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

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It seems like someone wants everyone on the Fedivese to stop using WebFinger.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17030
(WebFinger is used to resolve a Fediverse ID like "＠joeblow＠example·com" to an activity document ("application/activity+json").)
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#ActivityPub #FediDevs #Fediverse #WebFinger

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