Please Help Me With Activity Pub
blenderdumbass.org
This article is published on a website which is powered by BDServer. And I'm trying to make this website support ActivityPub, so you could for example, subscribe to me from your Mastodon account. Yet it is easier said than done. If you have any experience with ActivityPub, web-development or Python, please consider helping me. We have BDServer Matrix Chatroom.

My friend is working on adding ActivityPub support to his blog platform (BDServer) so people can follow/comment from Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.

Current status: Lemmy and Misskey can find and follow his account (@blenderdumbass@blenderdumbass.org), but Mastodon can’t find it at all, even though he sees proper ActivityPub requests hitting his server.

The technical details are pretty gnarly - RSA signature verification, HTTP header recreation, multi-threading issues. He wrote up the full journey here: Please Help Me With Activity Pub

If anyone has ActivityPub experience or wants to take a look at the code (Python), we have a Matrix room for BDServer development. Any insights on why different platforms behave differently would be super helpful.

https://matrix.to/#/#bdserver:tchncs.de

Source code: ActivityPub.py

  • Madiator2011OPAEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I would say for now the most issue is about acually pulling posts.