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Any ActivityPub and Mastodon experts out there?

Why might a link to a profile like @blog send a user to the web site vs show it in the profile pane in Mastodon?

@blog

just small circles 🕊 hat dies geteilt.

Als Antwort auf Paul Kinlan

Andy Piper
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Andy Piper
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do you mean that @blog should go to a Mastodon profile page? *is* it a Mastodon profile? Just grabbing your post via API...
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Paul Kinlan
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Paul Kinlan
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No it's not a mastodon profile. I naively thought any profile on the ActivityPub "network" would appear... It does if I search for the profile url directly in mastodon.
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Andy Piper
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Andy Piper
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ok. The ActivityStreams object contains ` Mention {
href: URL "posthero.us/actor",
name: "@blog"
}` so the link goes to that URL, basically.
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Paul Kinlan
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Paul Kinlan
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does mastodon generate it that way from configuration discovered via webfinger?
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Andy Piper
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Andy Piper
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it will be displaying the "profile" page from search from WebFinger, yeah. But then rendering the ActivityStreams payloads (Notes) as posts on the platform.
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Andy Piper
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Andy Piper
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... full disclosure, I will rapidly run out of technical rope in this discussion, but I know there are other more qualified #ActivityPub *and* Mastodon internals folks who can answer more qs (plus my brain is tired).
#activitypub
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Paul Kinlan
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Paul Kinlan
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I appreciate all the help already :D
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Matthias Pfefferle
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Matthias Pfefferle
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how do you link to the profile?

when I search for `https://posthero.us/actor` and click on the search result it opens properly, so I would assume that it is about the linking!?

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Matthias Pfefferle
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Matthias Pfefferle
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@andypiper maybe not! another idea: you link to posthero.us/ as Actor-URL and that URL does neither support Content-Negotiation, nor adds a link header to the ID posthero.us/actor.

So maybe that might be a problem!?

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Matthias Pfefferle
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the easiest thing you could try is adding `<link rel="alternate" type="application/activity+json" href="https ://posthero.us/actor" />` to the html head of posthero.us
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Paul Kinlan
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@pfefferle @andypiper I think I've added content negotiation and also the link rel alternate and it's not changed anything. I'll try and hop back on to it this weekend.... I don't actually like how I've got /actor and not a name etc.
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Matthias Pfefferle
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ok, seems to work now (content negotiation). sorry 🫣
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Paul Kinlan
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@pfefferle @andypiper - I fixed it. I had `url` in the actor JSON. Removing that now sends you to the profile (might need to unfollow and follow).

Wanted to say a big thanks for taking a look at this yesterday.

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Evan Prodromou
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@pfefferle @andypiper we should do a better job with discovering the AP objects behind embedded links to HTML. There's a project at the W3C SocialCG for this:

github.com/swicg/activitypub-h…


GitHub - swicg/activitypub-html-discovery

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just small circles 🕊 hat dies geteilt.

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Andy Piper
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Andy Piper
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I should also just point you at browser.pub/ and mention that fedify (npm install fedify) has a great CLI for some of the testing too. Good luck!

BrowserPub · A browser for exploring ActivityPub and the fediverse

Explore the open social web through the lens of ActivityPub and the fediverse.
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Scott Jenson
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@andypiper Paul fun to hear you're playing around with Activity Pub! I'm volunteering with the Mastodon team. Happy to help if you have any other questions
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Paul Kinlan
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Paul Kinlan
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@scottjenson @andypiper ooh exciting. Less of a question and more of a request paul.kinlan.me/thoughts-on-web…

Thoughts on a \"Web Follow\" protocol

Mastodon's cross-instance following is clunky. I propose a solution using the web+follow URL scheme, like mailto, to streamline following users on ActivityPub platforms. A user's home instance registers as a handler for web+follow.
Paul Kinlan (Modern Web Development with Chrome)
@Andy Piper @Scott Jenson

Matthias Pfefferle hat dies geteilt.

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Andy Piper
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Andy Piper
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@scottjenson take a look at codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src… is my immediate first thought. And now I'm going to sleep and I'll read your post some more tomorrow! 🙂

fep/fep/3b86/fep-3b86.md at main

fep - Fediverse Enhancement Proposals
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