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Document use of Webfinger for discovery #6

Open evanp opened 1 month ago

benpate commented 1 month ago

I want to add two "thumbs ups" to this one because it's such a huge part of interacting on the Fediverse. But I can't, so I'm just writing this comment as my +2

nightpool commented 4 weeks ago

Strong -1 against embedding webfinger any further in any new roles for "HTML discovery", we already have a separate document explaining webfinger that should serve to document the existing use-cases for it and discourse adding new use-cases for it, it's just too complex of a spec and has too many unnecessary, un-ActivityPub-like restrictions. I don't think it's a good fit for this use-case.

evanp commented 4 weeks ago

@nightpool I think it's one of our only options for doing discovery for a binary data file like JPG or MP4. (Other options: Link: header, LRDD, ...)

It's also an endpoint that almost every AP server implements for looking up actors, so it's going to be an easy one to augment with document/file lookup.