Re: Threads testing federation via ActivityPub

On 14/12/23 02:43, Ben Savage wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Ben Savage here from Meta. Just a few quick points:
>
>  1. This test is not yet started (debugging some last technical issues
>     together with Mastodon engineers)
>  2. Only a few accounts will be a part of this initial test. My
>     Threads account (https://www.threads.net/@btsavage) will be one of
>     those and I'm happy to make test posts to help people who want to
>     work on Threads integration.
>  3. We will share details about how to test soon, once we iron these
>     issues out.
>
>
> --Ben
>

But requesting content with activity+json mimetype  I get a redirect to 
https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser


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> *From:* Kagami Rosylight <saschanaz@outlook.com>
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> *Subject:* Re: Threads testing federation via ActivityPub
> The page source does include application/activity+json: <link 
> href="https: //www. threads. net/&#064;zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77" 
> type="application/activity+json" /> But curl doesn't work as you 
> noted, perhaps it requires
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> The page source does include application/activity+json: <link 
> href="https://www.threads.net/&#064;zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77" 
> type="application/activity+json" />
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> But curl doesn't work as you noted, perhaps it requires some additional things to limit it for internal test?
> On 13/12/2023 21:35, Evan Prodromou wrote:
>>
>> Mike Macgirving pointed out that I'm not using the right media type! 
>> I tried with ld+json and didn't get any traction, though.
>>
>> ```
>> curl -H 'Accept: application/ld+json; 
>> profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" 
>> <https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams>' 
>> https://www.threads.net/@zuck <https://www.threads.net/@zuck>
>>
>> curl -H 'Accept: application/ld+json; 
>> profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" 
>> <https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams>' 
>> https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77 
>> <https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77>
>>
>> ```
>>
>> On 2023-12-13 2:07 p.m., Evan Prodromou wrote:
>>>
>>> I just saw this post on Threads:
>>>
>>> https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77 
>>> <https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77>
>>>
>>> "Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available 
>>> on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol. 
>>> Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how 
>>> they interact and it will help content reach more people. I'm pretty 
>>> optimistic about this."
>>>
>>> I haven't been able to probe WebFinger for threads.net accounts, nor 
>>> do Threads URLs reply with Activity Streams 2.0 content.
>>>
>>> ```
>>> curl -H "Accept: application/activity+json" 
>>> https://www.threads.net/@zuck <https://www.threads.net/@zuck>
>>> curl -H "Accept: application/activity+json" 
>>> https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77 
>>> <https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77>
>>> curl -v 
>>> "https://www.threads.net/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:zuck@threads.net" 
>>> <https://www.threads.net/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:zuck@threads.net>
>>>
>>> ```
>>>
>>> Has anyone else been able to find signs of this "test" going on?
>>>
>>> Evan
>>>