One of the gaps in ActivityPub is that even though there is a specified way to provide all the information about a user (an “Actor”, in AP), there is no way to know what URL to query to get that…

One of the special design decisions made during the development of the ActivityPub protocol was that the format of the data being sent between servers would not just be JSON, but something a bit different called JSON-LD. From what I…

Welcome to the inaugural post in a series about things I’ve discovered about how ActivityPub works in the real world, beyond what the spec says. While the spec is pretty good and easy enough to understand there is a lot…