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Gregory

Two small #Smithereen updates.
1. There are now empty states for all pages that display a list of things that can be empty.
2. All outgoing get requests for #activitypub objects are now signed by a service actor because Mastodon can be configured to require these requests to be signed, and federation didn't work with these instances. It does now.

@activitypub #mastodev

13 Sep 2021 at 17:20 | Open on mastodon.social
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marius

@grishka @activitypub what does the service actor represent? Is it equivalent to the Smithereen instance itself?

13 Sep 2021 at 18:17 | Open on metalhead.club
Gregory

@mariusor yes, Mastodon has one too. It's a way of saying "no user in particular". friends.grishka.me/activitypub

13 Sep 2021 at 18:19 | Open on mastodon.social
marius

@grishka nice 🤝

this is mine: federated.id/

Looking at yours I wonder if there's any benefit of having a sharedInbox vs. using the service's inbox as one for the other actors on the instance.

13 Sep 2021 at 18:23 | Open on metalhead.club
Gregory

@mariusor well, that inbox is a dummy, it's an alias to instance-wide sharedInbox. This actor only exists as a container for a public key to sign outgoing GET requests with. You aren't meant to send it any activities.

13 Sep 2021 at 18:25 | Open on mastodon.social
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