February Update on ActivityPub Development

[julian]

@crazycells I am not actually certain how it would work with a subfolder install. The way it currently works, a profile is found by querying the "webfinger" URL for that user. For example, for my account here, my user slug is julian and the domain portion is community.nodebb.org, and so when query that domain's webfinger endpoint it will show a link to my user profile.

That's how the handle is "proven" to exist. So if you wanted to support your site (which is on a subfolder), you'd have to add an nginx or apache rule to route the .well-known/webfinger requests to NodeBB.

I'm sure it's been done too actually, I am not sure if the Vivaldi or Opera guys were the ones.

[altcode@social.vivaldi.net]

@julian If you need ideas, you can look at what Mastodon, Pleroma, and GoToSocial do:

https://docs-p.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#federation
https://docs.pleroma.social/backend/configuration/how_to_serve_another_domain_for_webfinger/
https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/getting_started/#domain-name

My Mastodon instance, for example, has the local domain set to vivaldi.net, but the web domain is set to social.vivaldi.net, so my handle looks like @\[email protected] (or at least it does when viewed from remote servers that respect this configuration).

[crazycells]

hi @julian , I think the first post is broken... I see the last and first post being the same... and I cannot see vivaldi_blue's response on the forum...

[julian]

@crazycells yes, I noticed that this morning too, but can't take a look at it until later today

I think it's an easy fix.

[crazycells]

@julian no problem , I just wanted to bring it to your attention...

[julian]

@crazycells said in February Update on ActivityPub Development:

@julian no problem , I just wanted to bring it to your attention...

Okay, I think it is resolved now.

I wonder how quoted posts in NodeBB look in Mastodon

[devnull@crag.social]

@AltCode my main concern would be people potentially thinking users on that domain represent the brand. Suppose it depends on a case by case basis!

[alicihan@mastodon.social]

@devnull testing image upload...

[alicihan@mastodon.social]

@julian testing for image upload...

[devnull@crag.social]

@alicihan one problem at a time, ok?

[crazycells]

@devnull-crag-social lol sorry, no problem...

[crazycells]

@devnull-crag-social maybe this can be solved by using full username for external users? such as @devnull@crag-social instead of Julian Lam or using both Julian Lam <@devnull@crag-social>?

By the way, to reply, I can "quote" some of the replies, but cannot use "quote" button for others... clicking does not do anything... fyi...

[julian]

@crazycells Remote mentions are currently not supported (see original post) but will be soon.

Format would be as expected @[email protected] or @[email protected], etc.

[the skyfoxx]

For those looking for accounts to follow for testing, I created a helpful guide here: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17857/list-of-popular-mastodon-accounts-to-follow-activity-pub-testing

[Jon Pincus]

Congrats! Looking forward to playing more with this!

[crazycells]

@julian are you the only user who can create a topic here and post on mastodon at the same time? or will there be any way for other mastodon users to create a topic here on the forum without creating a local user profile? Or can other mastodon users only post replies?

[Jon Pincus]

Also, what's the best way to provide feedback as I run into quirky behavior ... on here, via the fediverse, filing a bug, or ... ?

[julian]

Only topics in the NodeBB Development, ActivityPub, and Testing Ground categories get federated here, for now.

Any local user can start topics and get them automatically federated.

Remote users currently cannot create topics (they'd need to "address" a category, and that's not available yet).

[julian]

@Jon-Pincus said in February Update on ActivityPub Development:

Also, what's the best way to provide feedback as I run into quirky behavior ... on here, via the fediverse, filing a bug, or ... ?

Here. Be gentle

[crazycells]

I appreciate it if you can put a /world shortcut on the left side panel, because I have to type the url each time... additionally, will this be added as sub-category or just a shortcut to the side?

Additionally, these pages look strange... clearly mastodon posts are too long to be a header but it can be edited shorter since we have to click the link to read it anyway? Or posted to the /world page as posts rather than title, but when clicked on it, it will lead to the related title?