Re: Threads testing federation via ActivityPub

It's evidently a very limited set of accounts; so far I (and others) have
only seen that @mosseri, @0xjessel, and @christophersu are federating so
far. Others like @btsavage still aren't serving webfinger or AS2 yet.

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 11:23 AM Cristiano Longo <
cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org> wrote:

> Still not working for me.  May be I should declare the accepted encodings
> in the request.
>
>
> Request
>
>
> GET /@btsavage HTTP/2
> Host: www.threads.net
> accept: application/activity+json
>
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> Response
>
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> HTTP response code 320
>
> empty body
>
>
> Headers
> vary: Accept-Encoding
> location: https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser
> strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; preload; includeSubDomains
> content-type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
> x-fb-debug:
> 0cHgFvshEWJR5sZU23uOemQcHuGcN+zUO8Wam4ym76dO5OEXTa4pOApVYp2AnEwPBkMl2L0E+IqWIkmcWDQICg==
> content-length: 0
> date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:17:07 GMT
> alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400
>
>
>
>
>
> On 14/12/23 19:31, Chris Messina wrote:
>
> Seems like that is working now.
>
>
> https://www.threads.net/@0xjessel/post/C010QLJrQCI/?
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> On Thu, Dec 14 2023 at 6:12 AM, Cristiano Longo <
> cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Kagami Rosylight <saschanaz@outlook.com> <saschanaz@outlook.com>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 13, 2023 11:09 PM
>> *To:* public-swicg@w3.org <public-swicg@w3.org> <public-swicg@w3.org>
>> *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" />
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>> ```
>> 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
>>
>> "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
>> curl -H "Accept: application/activity+json"
>> 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
>>
>>

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