my #homecloud #ActivityPub configs are still amiss.
https://webfinger.net reports:

- #Pixelfed & #Mobilizon accept `@user@host` & `user@host` as the same request.
- #NextCloud 30 gives 503 on both but Social is being rewritten anyway.
- #WordPress 6.7 activitypub accepts `user@host` but `@user@host is 404

I noticed today it was no longer federating, the new puzzle. I made no 'intentional' config changes but learned today my hack on Functions.php to remove P tags gets wiped on upgrades.

WebFinger

This #webfinger thing is a further puzzle. #wordpress adheres to #RFC7033 but that spec says nothing about acct beginning with @ they only use user@host examples! So is this important if a node only accepts without? Or is there a JDR trick I should know? ๐Ÿคจ
@teledyn the beginning @ is only because it should look like an @-reply we know from twitter. All fediverse platforms look up these replies without the leading @, because, as you already mentioned, this is not supported by WebFinger. Let me know if you need help!

@pfefferle

OK, but that doesn't explain webfinger.net

That 'client' is the same, yet only WordPress does not accept the at-prefix, so it must be the receiver who lops it off, no?

@teledyn maybe start from the beginning: What problem do you have? Why do you need to look up WebFinger handles with the leading `@`?

@pfefferle the beginning was earlier than that: I hadn't used WP in months due to a corrupt file in #org2blog so I fixed that and noticed nothing was going in or out like it did before, so went looking for tools to test ActivityPub things and webfinger.net was all I found.

The acct is @garym but the site-in-progress is https://radio.teledyn.com/blog

The Last Blog โ€“ may be the last time, I don't know

@teledyn @garym but this shouldn't be a problem of the leading `@` because WordPress is removing that before lookups!

@pfefferle @garym

I was comparing AP apps that did work with those that did not, and the at-prefix was just what I found and thought it peculiar and worth asking about.

Today is my day for the deep dive, tailing whatever I can get out of it to see why it suddenly won't talk to other sites ๐Ÿ˜…

@teledyn @garym let me know if I can help and how!

@pfefferle @garym

Thanks, this stuff is always an adventure. On the plus side, as a tinkerer, I have no deadlines or managerial overlords, so it's like the good old days of "it's ready when it's ready"!

@pfefferle @garym

Wellโ€ฆ once again I don't know what I did to break it, and don't know what I did that fixed it, but the last post went through fine! Go figure ๐Ÿ˜