Sean Tilley@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoYou Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediversewedistribute.orgexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down135file-text
arrow-up136arrow-down1external-linkYou Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediversewedistribute.orgSean Tilley@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoDoesn’t seem to work. $ curl https://threads.net/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:potus@threads.net {"subject":"acct:potus@threads.net","links":[{"href":"https://threads.net/ap/users/17841445266116124/","rel":"self","type":"application/activity+json"},{"href":"https://www.threads.net/@potus","rel":"http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page","type":"text/html"}]} $ curl https://threads.net/ap/users/17841445266116124/ {"success":false,"error":"Not found"}
minus-squareSean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-25 months agoWeird, maybe you have to use an ActivityPub server to complete the lookup? I managed to get it to work with Mastodon and Akkoma, but haven’t tried anything else. Edit: alternatively, try doing a Webfinger lookup for @potus@threads.net directly?
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months ago Weird, maybe you have to use an ActivityPub server to complete the lookup? I was testing it with curl because my self-hosted Mastodon server doesn’t find it. Edit: alternatively, try doing a Webfinger lookup for @potus@threads.net directly? The leading @ is incorrect for a webfinger account lookup. $ curl https://threads.net/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:@potus@threads.net {"success":false,"error":"Not found"}
Doesn’t seem to work.
$ curl https://threads.net/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:potus@threads.net
{"subject":"acct:potus@threads.net","links":[{"href":"https://threads.net/ap/users/17841445266116124/","rel":"self","type":"application/activity+json"},{"href":"https://www.threads.net/@potus","rel":"http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page","type":"text/html"}]}
$ curl https://threads.net/ap/users/17841445266116124/
{"success":false,"error":"Not found"}
Weird, maybe you have to use an ActivityPub server to complete the lookup? I managed to get it to work with Mastodon and Akkoma, but haven’t tried anything else.
Edit: alternatively, try doing a Webfinger lookup for
@potus@threads.net
directly?I was testing it with curl because my self-hosted Mastodon server doesn’t find it.
The leading @ is incorrect for a webfinger account lookup.
$ curl https://threads.net/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:@potus@threads.net
{"success":false,"error":"Not found"}