Idle thought re: account delegation
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I've been toying with the idea of using OAuth2/OpenID and the C2S API to have a service act on behalf of another instance (e.g. act on Lemmy, post as Mastodon account)
But now I'm wondering whether that kind of complexity is needed... one could theoretically register a public key to the instance it is acting on behalf of, and simply sign activities using the ID of the other server... Second server would need only update the actor with the new public key for verification purposes...
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@julian have you read this?
Cross-server Interactions in ActivityPub
So, Richard McManus asked me about how ActivityPub supports cross-server usage. As an example use case, let's say a user with the account eric@social.example wants to comment on a photo by dionne@photos.example. In this scenario, Eric would go to the page https://photos.example/users/dionne/photos/1 and enter a comment. How would that work? I can talk about how…
Evan Prodromou's Blog (evanp.me)
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@julian have you read this?
Cross-server Interactions in ActivityPub
So, Richard McManus asked me about how ActivityPub supports cross-server usage. As an example use case, let's say a user with the account eric@social.example wants to comment on a photo by dionne@photos.example. In this scenario, Eric would go to the page https://photos.example/users/dionne/photos/1 and enter a comment. How would that work? I can talk about how…
Evan Prodromou's Blog (evanp.me)
@julian tl;dr all you need is OAuth 2.0. It's easy with this FEP:
I think it's great to hear you're going to implement the ActivityPub API. Chapter 3 of my book covers it pretty well. I strongly recommend reading it!
ActivityPub book
In September 2023, I started work on a book about ActivityPub for O'Reilly Media. As of September 2024, the book is now available! Ebook The book is available from several different ebook vendors in different formats. O'Reilly Learning Platform Amazon Apple Books ebooks.com Kobo Print The book is not yet available in print format. O'Reilly…
Evan Prodromou's Blog (evanp.me)
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@julian tl;dr all you need is OAuth 2.0. It's easy with this FEP:
I think it's great to hear you're going to implement the ActivityPub API. Chapter 3 of my book covers it pretty well. I strongly recommend reading it!
ActivityPub book
In September 2023, I started work on a book about ActivityPub for O'Reilly Media. As of September 2024, the book is now available! Ebook The book is available from several different ebook vendors in different formats. O'Reilly Learning Platform Amazon Apple Books ebooks.com Kobo Print The book is not yet available in print format. O'Reilly…
Evan Prodromou's Blog (evanp.me)
evan@cosocial.ca no, I haven't read that actually! I did now and I'm feeling a bit reassured that I came to the same solution, although it's currently high level and theoretical.
That there's an FEP written for it is great as well. Are there any existing implementations of this FEP?
As an aside, my forum hadn't seen your post before, so when it pulled it in it automatically back filled all of the comments too, because pfefferle@mastodon.social added support for 7888/f228 awhile back! Neat to see it outside of a testing context (no pun intended) heheh.
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@julian @pfefferle onepage.pub uses it, the ap command-line tool uses the FEP. The new checkin tool I'm working on uses it. It'd be great to see more implementations.
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@julian @pfefferle onepage.pub uses it, the ap command-line tool uses the FEP. The new checkin tool I'm working on uses it. It'd be great to see more implementations.
evan@cosocial.ca that's cool, so hopefully I'll have something to test against besides another NodeBB server
