I think I have a valid WebFinger and also an endpoint for Actor. I have carefully checked the output against your blog and the only differences appear to be the data, but I am still not discoverable.
I wanted to check if I needed to implement the other endpoints in Actor before I became searchable.
@mapache It was all about how I was returning the actor content. I am using MVC to return the data so I used:
Produces("application/json");
However, I also was returning the data like this:
return Json(data, jsonseropt);
I changed that to:
return Ok(data);
I now show up in any Masto search, but I still need to work on showing my latest posts on the profile page and handling things like follows, likes, etc.
@Paxxi I agree that this article does not take into account what privacy means to the most vulnerable people in our society. I do think that makes it all the more important to share the current limits of the tool, and even how it might be bypassed or circumvented.
I was looking at implementing #ActivityPub with #dasblog a while back, and I admittedly struggled and lost my enthusiasm for the project. However, I have found @mapache explanations and tutorials incredibly helpful and intuitive.
DasBlog is not static so some of this does not apply, but enough does, and for the rest I can easily overlap gaps with the rich blogging engine. I am currently on step 5, this is happening!
Now there are gaps with this, not least of which is moderation, but this is an incredible start, I finally understand the entire flow, I could not be happier.
I vividly remember the brief gold rush when the app store first launched. Indie devs were making millions of dollars just by charging a few bucks to download their app. Things have changed of course. The market is over-saturated, and the floor is always zero dollars. But IMO, it's should still be worth the price of a coffee to have a really good app that is valuable to you. https://alcove.website/@mambocab/112288654684745718
@polotek It did feel like we all decided that the price of seeing an ad was just fine, and that for many developers (in mobile especially) that ongoing revenue was incredibly convenient.
I am always willing to pay for software and see the request for payment as a fundamentally healthier exchange.