@pfefferle To my knowledge this is not documented yet, but what I know:
Try Fetching application actor from NodeInfo (fallback, use the @relay actor) [1]
Do validations (e.g. type must be either Group or Application) [2]. Here also the faulty outbox, which I provided that small fix for recently led to problems.
Other than that, the process seems to be no different.
@pfefferle You maybe noticed, that also groups could get followed. The idea was that one could either enter e.g. @notiz.blog@notiz.blog, or the URL of an group actor too. But it is not implemented yet. At least it never worked for me, and reading Elixir code is hard for me.
The problem was instance-to-instance following only knowing a domain. There would have been other possibilities, people on SocialHub also discussed why that FEP might not be the best solution. Maybe just having https://example.tld/ resolving to that actor profile could work too. I haven't spend too much time in weighting all pros and cons, but as adapting to other solutions is not that much work...
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