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Understanding ActivityPub and Federation (mastodon.social)
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Understanding ActivityPub and Federation

I have tried to understand how Federation works but I'm getting a feeling that there's some rather large gaps here. My first attempt was to find an API implementation in python, 3 wasted hours of my life later and I'm making requests.request() calls like it's 2007. And I still can't access the content as presented on the webinterfaces. There doesn't seem to be a way to access eg the communities tab via activitypub? Any Help?

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[–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago

@Hexorg can't directly reply to your comment because that wasn't federated (oh the sweet irony) :D
Anyway, it's more like I'm trying to write a usenet reader, fully expecting to have to create a curated list of of instances but then finding out there is no way to see what any given instance actually contains outside of writing specific code for each and every one of them.

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