Hi @evan@cwebber @pfefferle
Timely question: Does anyone know the status of a formal or informal building out an #ActivtyPub test suite, akin to the one used to test http://webmention.rocks but for Acitivity pub.
I know the activitypub.rocks effort ended & I see this one that seemed to evolve from that but has been derelict for a while.
Capturing+validating/invalidating requests, so onto processing!
Learning more about how the #Mastodon actor files can vary versus other clients
For example preferredUsername in the #Mastodon actor record is unique per instance and ties to #webfinger but there is no guarantee of uniqueness or existence per #activitypub docs
So I'll be storing by actor URI and trying to tie back to the webfinger format for "pretty ID name" when possible
Could WebFinger make it possible to use your own domain name for an account on someone else's Mastodon server, sort of like bring-your-own-domain email services?
Initial federated contact made! My local dev instance has just made its first calls to a remote #Mastodon instance (via #WebFinger discovery) to retrieve a remote user account!
One small step for #NodeBB, ah... also one small step for the #Fediverse I guess.