You Can't Follow Me

Re:You Can't Follow Me by louismerlin on Thursday January 11, 2024 @05:12AM (#38950189)

Thank you for your write-up, I ran into similar issues a couple of months back.

Another gripe with the technical implementation of mastodon is the CORS headers required to access the ActivityPub API [0].

Because of this issue, an activitypub-aware frontend for mastodon has to have its own mastodon server running, which adds a whole bunch of hurdles.

[0]:https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10400

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Re:You Can't Follow Me by jeroenhd on Thursday January 11, 2024 @05:22AM (#38950268)

I think this only applies to web clients, but I don't think ActivityPub's C2S protocol was ever designed to be used by arbitrary web clients. I suppose you could work around it by setting up some kind of proxy for requesting Mastodon URLs; you may need to do that anyway if the other server has authorised fetch enabled.

There are a whole bunch of technical implementation details that I disagree with when it comes to Mastodon. I wish the many MissKey forks would stabilise, because it seems a lot saner (yet every time I consider setting up a server, there has been a new fork thst everyone is switching to).

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Re:You Can't Follow Me by junon on Thursday January 11, 2024 @05:52AM (#38950517)

CORS only applies to browsers, this is an inherently different problem.

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