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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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I skipped through the ActivityPub spec a few days ago, and from the top of my head I think there is a section about Client-Server interactions (as opposed to Server-Server).

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yes but even then it still doesn’t have lemmy specific concepts in there https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#client-addressing

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