Hey mate thanks for writing all that down. Gives me a few ideas - in particular how NNTP could fit in to the equation.
LKML can be accessed by a usenet client at nntp.lore.kernel.org. In theory, then, it should be possible to at least read both LKML and ActivityPub stuff hosted at the same NNTP server. To get that working means making sure all the conversion and mapping of concepts are as clean as possible. It’s a good test!
Thanks again!
Good question
The process of going from that email-like address to an ActivityPub Actor (https URL) is done by WebFinger. So whatever we get back from that lookup is who we send the message to. For example, when we look up
localtesting@aussie.zone
we get this response (truncated for readability):The value for
type
,application/activity+json
tells us that we can send ActivityPub stuff to it.You can play around with WebFinger in the browser.
Hope that makes sense?