[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #58120: oEmbed Mastodon

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#58120: oEmbed Mastodon
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 Reporter:  mediaformat      |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Embeds           |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by Shelob9):

 A challenge here is Mastodon isn't a website, it's federated. This is a
 similar problem to a WordPress embed -- could be WordPress.com could be
 one of millions of other sites. Mastodon and by extension ActivityPub uses
 Webfinger to identify users "WebFinger as described in RFC 7033 is a spec
 that defines a method for resolving links to a resource, given only a URI
 on a particular server." from:
 https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/webfinger/

 If there was a Mastodon embed block, when a Toot is added, the URL for a
 toot has the server URL for the Mastdon instance in it. WordPress could
 use that URL to identify the user and get the toot via the API
 https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/statuses/#get

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