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  • @jdt the way I interpret it for JSON-LD documents is that the fragment is the actual name of the property inside the document that the IRI refers to. So in the case of a public key would be https://example.com/jdoe#publicKey (instead of jdoe#main)

    I haven't seen anything in the documentation to give a more explicit, or different, mechanism.

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  • @mariusor@metalhead.club That's great context; thanks!

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  • @silverpill@mitra.social That makes sense. I guess I was getting a little bit spun around by the idea that the keyId is not the Actor id and thinking too hard about it.

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  • @jdt the fragment in a JSON-LD document IRI has a semantic meaning that goes back to RDF: https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#section-fragID

    > a secondary resource that is usually a part of, view of, defined in, or described in the primary resource, and the precise semantics depend on the set of representations that might result from a retrieval action on the primary resource.

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  • @jdt You're supposed to fetch the keyId first, then fetch its owner (or controller).
    But in practice its either /main-key (GoToSocial) or fragment ID, so it is indeed possible to save a HTTP request.

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  • keyId is a problem.

    Generally speaking, most Actors have a `keyId' that looks something like:

    https://enigmatick.social/user/jdt#main-key

    When an inbox POST arrives from an unknown user, we can chop off the bit including #main-key and we can pull the remaining URL as the Actor's ID.

    But some implementations decided they should use /main-key instead. That indicates that the keyId format is unreliable and not well-specified. So I switched to deferring this header check for unknown Actors deeper into my ingestion pipeline so that I could retrieve the actor string from the object being sent. That works pretty well.

    But GET requests. Like followers_synchronization. Dammit. There's no object to refer to. So we're back to parsing the keyId and hoping for meaning.

    Out of 124,007 Actors in my database, 587 do not comply with the #main-key convention.

    enigmatick=> select count(*) from actors where as_public_key->>'id' NOT LIKE '%#main-key'; count ------- 587 (1 row)

    For full coverage, I need to accommodate /main-key and #key as well

    #ActivityPub

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  • @reiver I'd consider interoperating social networks to be "federated", but I know it's not a precise term. There are similar ambiguities with other commonly used terms: decentralization, server, node, instance, and so on. We have our personal definitions but find that others have a different mental model than ours. It might be interesting to have a collaborative social web glossary that captures the variations of how these terms are used.

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  • @rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz Definitely. Offloading the static assets to nginx is a big win. Varnish adds a layer of serving from memory that takes it up a notch. Like having your own Fastly pop.

    It does require some configuration nuance to be sure you aren't serving cached assets to the wrong connections (e.g., authenticated GET requests that shouldn't be shared beyond a specific session).

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    @dansupLooks very pretty, cannot wait
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Our publishers range from solo journalists and creators, to established news outlets and large businesses. They value independence, and they’re willing to do the work to maintain control of their brand, distribution, data, and relationship with readers.SWF: What is it like to be a Ghost user in 2025? What kind of problems are your users facing today?JO: The big challenge today is the same one that’s haunted independent publishers for two decades: discovery. You can own your platform and serve your audience beautifully, but if people can’t find you, none of it matters. Email newsletters have been a solid answer, but they’re still dependent on deliverability and inbox placement. Algorithms on social platforms actively suppress links now, so sharing your work there is like shouting into a hurricane.SWF: Tell us about your experience with ActivityPub. Why did you decide to add ActivityPub support to your software?JO: Ghost has had support for delivering content by email newsletters for a number of years, and email has remained an unassailable distribution platform for publishers because it’s an open protocol. No company controls your email list except you, so it’s one of the best investments you can make. ActivityPub is now doing the same thing for social technology. It allows publishers to own and control a distribution channel that allows their work to spread and be discovered by others. For the first time, you can publish independently and grow faster than ever before.SWF: What stack is Ghost built on? What development tools does your team use?JO: Ghost is all built in modern JavaScript; mainly Node and React. Our ActivityPub service is built on Fedify, and everything we build is released under an open source MIT license. 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We’re at a pretty early stage for long-form content on ActivityPub, and the majority of other products out there don’t necessarily have interfaces for supporting it yet. The easy part is that we can provide fallbacks, so if you’re scrolling on Mastodon you might see an article title and excerpt, with a link to read the full post – and that works pretty well! The dream, though, is to make it so you can just consume the full article within whatever app you happen to be using, and doing that requires more collaboration between different platforms to agree on how to make that possible.SWF: You’ve been an active participant in the ActivityPub community since you decided to implement the standard. Why?JO: ActivityPub is a movement as much as a technology protocol, and behind it is a group of people who all believe in making the web a weird, wonderful open place for collaboration. Getting to know those humans and being a part of that movement has been every bit as important to the success of our work as writing the code that powers our software. We’ve received incredible support from the Mastodon team, AP spec authors, and other platforms who are building ActivityPub support. Without actively participating in the community, I don’t know if we would’ve gotten as far as we have already. SWF: Ghost has implemented not only a publishing interface, but also a reading experience. Why?JO: The big difference between ActivityPub and email is that it’s a 2-way protocol. When you send an email newsletter, that’s it. You’re done. But with ActivityPub, it’s possible to achieve what – in the olden days – we fondly referred to as ‘the blogosphere’. People all over the world writing and reading each other’s work. If an email newsletter is like standing on a stage giving a keynote to an audience, participating in a network is more like mingling at the afterparty. You can’t just talk the whole time, you have to listen, too. Being successful within the context of a network has always involved following and engaging with others, as peers, so it felt really important to make sure that we brought that aspect into the product.SWF: Your reader is, frankly, one of the most interesting UIs for ActivityPub we’ve seen. Tell us about why you put the time and effort into making a beautiful reading experience for Ghost.JO: We didn’t want to just tick the “ActivityPub support” checkbox – we wanted to create something that actually feels great to use every day. The idea was to bring some of the product ideas over from RSS readers and kindles, where people currently consume long-form content, and use them as the basis for an ActivityPub-native reading experience. We experimented with multiple different approaches to try and create an experience with a mix of familiarity and novelty. 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And if you’re technical, our ActivityPub implementation is entirely open source on GitHub – contributions, bug reports, and feedback make the whole ecosystem stronger.
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