I'm interested in hearing from #ActivityPub developers who've successfully mapped #OpenGraph properties from <meta> tags in Web pages onto the Page type and its properties in AS2.
Overall, mapping to ActivityStreams was pretty easy. Sherlock is the key component in #Emissary that helps it participate in many different social webs.
I was very impressed with how easy #BlueSky makes it to claim a domain name handle.
I uploaded a small text file to .well-known and my account is now "@edent.tel"
I'm not convinced that #ATprotocol is brilliant - but Mastodon server providers could learn from the simplicity of getting a personalised domain up and running.
Hi @mastohost, I came across @liaizon which is IMO hosted by you. More precisely the social. subdomain is. How dow you resolve #webfinger#rfc7033 adresses to a host not mentioned in the address?
Tonight I implemented something "just because" on my version of @Edent ActivityPub educational server. Some platforms will pick up a profile background image and display it along with your banner and avatar.
In your webfinger record, add this little bit at the root of the file and wallah. Akkoma is picking it up, at least! It's fun to play around.
"For a person, the type of information that might be discoverable via WebFinger includes a personal profile address, identity service, telephone number, or preferred avatar."
Hmmm.... wondering if it's possible to craft a custom #webfinger endpoint that enables serving different users from different #ActivityPub software on the same hostname.
Tried the new #ActivityPub plugin on a #Wordpress comic site. All the settings look fine on the WP end...but so far I can't find or follow any of these links from my Mastodon account. Anybody know what the deal is?
The lack of an existing webfinger means one wasn’t able to be created.
Now that you’ve created the “well-known” folder containing your manual webfinger - run the same test.
If new webfinger passes test, search #Mastodon for your author page which your webfinger points to.
& if search is successful, copy your webfinger, save it somewhere, delete it (keeping “well-known” folder). Run test & search again to see if #activitypub builds #webfinger correctly.
Trying to get ActivityPub to work properly for my #Wordpress website, but it’s simply not showing up here on the ‘don. No clue why as everything looks good on WP’s end. Purging caches, waiting a bit, even making a test post all = nothing. Can’t even pull up the profile. Dunno.
If anyone is ever able to see the @timemachiner profile, lemme know.
Just set up webfinger so "AT mastodon AT underlap.org" is an alias for my mastodon account on fosstodon.org. (I can't post the actual account because mastodon replaces it with the account it refers to!)
The home page for the WebFinger protocol really needs a much better introduction to what it does. It should be used widely and supported on nearly every website, especially for media orgs. With it people can put their global identifier on business cards, profile pages and presentation slides so everyone can look them up this way. It can also be updated to make changes or add new accounts. #WebFinger#ActivityPub https://webfinger.net
I've been a little quiet about #Emissary - in between moving and refactoring one of the core libraries, it's honestly been pretty broken for a little bit.
But my desk is set back up and I'm excited at making some progress again. Now, two libraries that power emissary are also nearing completion, so others can build on this work without having to implement the whole server.
Sherlock converts HTML pages into #ActivityStreams documents using any and all meta-data available: #JSONLD, #WebFinger, #MicroFormats, #RSS, #Atom, #JSONFeeds (with more coming soon). Any format it can identify gets parsed and normalized into a standard-looking ActivityStreams doc, which gets passed up the toolchain to Hannibal.
I'm so excited to see this stack start to deliver real results soon.
Guten Morgen zusammen,
Profilbilder und Videos von Threads scheinen derzeit noch ein Problem zu sein.
Profilbilder muss ich häufig manuell nachladen und Videos scheinen blockiert zu werden. Ist das nur mit meinem Profil so oder kann das noch jemand bestätigen?
Question about webfinger: if I give it an actor @foo, it's going to query directly to bar.social, right? There's no way to somehow, register a proxy for something? I guess that would be a security risk, no?
My goal is to try to figure out whether I can make some kind of bridge for ActivityPub and ATProto, without touching either codepase directly, since making either one be able to talk to the other is a political issue right now. While code-wise I think it's possible to translate between them, at least with follows, likes, and posts, the only way I can think for people to actually interact with the other would be to have the bridge be itself a server, so you would follow a bsky account by following @username@bridge.net which would then forward to @username which is super cumbersome