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   @Dwarf (dwarf@borg.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 19:39:24 JST @Dwarf

   #activitypub question: #mastodon supports moving to another account, but other servers may not. I can't really find any proper documentation on the spec that shows what your instance should respond to show such "redirect", but it would be nice to be able to have a standalone server that only sends such redirect notices.
   Does anyone have any links to documentation for it?

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     @Dwarf (dwarf@borg.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 19:50:52 JST @Dwarf

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     OK so a little more research: webfinger answer doesn't seem to be changed, e.g. <instance>/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:youraccount@example.com
     
     Though the Mastodon API does return a JSON key called moved in the API requests to <instance>/api/v1/accounts/lookup?acct=youraccount@example.com
     
     The value of the moved key is another User object. Should be doable. Now to find other places where user information is queried.

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     helge (helgek@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 20:46:00 JST helge

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     @dwarf

     I think it basically boils down to setting a different subject in the #webfinger reply, e.g.

     https://mas.to/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:helgek@mas.to

     if I moved to borg@social the subject would be
     "acct:helge@borg.social".

     https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/webfinger/ links to the two relevant RFCs.

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