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# What's Webfinger?
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[Webfinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebFinger), a protocol for discovering objects on the server. It's used by Mastodon and is important for interop'ing with Mastodon (and most ActivityPub servers).
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It lives at a special route: `GET /.well-known/webfinger`.
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We can expect a webfinger response to always looks something like this:
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```json
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{
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"subject": "acct:alice@my-example.com",
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"links": [
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{
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"rel": "self",
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"type": "application/activity+json",
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"href": "https://my-example.com/actor"
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}
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]
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}
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```
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In this case, `alice` is the ActivityPub Organization slug, and `my-example.com` is the domain of the server.
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