Understanding ActivityPub and Federation (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago by JustusWingert@mastodon.social to c/programming@beehaw.org

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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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[-] admin@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Have you read through all the Lemmy API documentation?

[-] JustusWingert@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@admin "all" is a pretty tall order, but I have been reading both the lemmy, mastodon, activitypub and several other documentations to get a feel for dataflow and presentation. I'm sort of baffled by this shortfall. The expectation for something "implementing ActivityPub" would be that I can access the target instance to a usable degree with it. Right now that is definitely not the case. There is no way to get a list of communities, so with only "beehaw.org" known I have no way to find anything.

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