Comment on Unable to find myself in search, advice?

freamon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Lemmy instances won’t search outside of their own databases if you’re not logged in.

But if you are, what it does can be recreated on a command-line by doing:
curl --header ‘accept: application/json’ https://nerdica.net/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:nate0@nerdica.net | jq .

This shows that your profile is at nerdica.net/profile/nate0. Lemmy puts all users at a /u/, but using webfinger means that other fediverse accounts don’t have to follow the same structure. For lemmy.world, you’re at lemmy.world/u/nate0@nerdica.net in the same way that a mastodon user is at e.g lemmy.world/u/MrLovenstein@mastodon.social.

All fediverse accouts use a keypair, so I don’t think that’s the reason why nostr accounts are so long. But if you webfinger yours, you get: {“error”:“Invalid host”} so any ActivityPub instances will only ever be able to find you if you’ve interacted with them in some way to get a database entry.

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