Feature suggestion for #ActivityPub servers:
If an actor provides an outbox URL, but not an inbox URL, it means that it cannot receive Follow activities and it can not push content to the followers. In such cases, the follower's server should switch to periodic polling like RSS.
This will enable statically-built blogs ( #jekyll #hugo etc) to appear in Mastodon network.
#mastodon #gotosocial #hometown #takahe #writefreely #wordpress #soapbox #pleroma #akkoma #fediverse
@nilesh Is this all that’s needed for posts in static sites to appear on Mastodon and wider Fedi?
Is this a change required in ActivityPub or the implementing instances?
If so, then can we put this suggestion to the #ActivityPub maintainers, on their GitHub site?
@nitbuntu I think, yes, this is all that's needed. And I don't think this requires any change in ActivityPub spec.
Every AP actor has an inbox URL that receives events. But if the inbox is down for any reason, you just cannot send them a Follow request. All I'm asking servers is to switch to pull instead of push for such cases.
ActivityPub requires that every actor have both an inbox and an outbox.
So yes, this would require a change to the AP standard.
@volkris @nitbuntu
Irrespective of this, any AP software needs to be robust enough to handle the inbox endpoint being down.