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Awesome! That's pretty cool. So the ID of an ActivityPub actor is simply a url. That is great. I think Mastodon should have made it so that the url for their

• vidarh 3y ago
  I think there'd have been confusion either way, with people expecting to put the URLs into a browser rather than a social app, especially as there's no uniform way of recognising that they're Fediverse-related without visiting the URL first, so I think having an indicator of that there is worth it, but e.g. the masto.ai/@mg style URL are a lot better than the masto.ai/users/mg. The webfinger support also potentially enables some cool functionality by letting users use the same handle for multiple services. That said, I'd love to see someone set up a webfinger service that 1) lets people bring their own custom domains, 2) shows a linktree style UI if you hit host/username, 3) optionally redirects or transparently caches certain settings, 4) offer to transparently redirect requests to the user page a given resource based on Accept: header where possible (e.g. ActivityPub/ActivityStreams technically expect 'application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" ' with the caveat that the "profile" bit is likely to be left out by a lot of clients)