subhub/handlers/webfinder/README.md
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# What's Webfinger?
[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).
It lives at a special route: `GET /.well-known/webfinger`.
We can expect a webfinger response to always looks something like this:
```json
{
"subject": "acct:alice@my-example.com",
"links": [
{
"rel": "self",
"type": "application/activity+json",
"href": "https://my-example.com/actor"
}
]
}
```
In this case, `alice` is the ActivityPub Organization slug, and `my-example.com` is the domain of the server.