Just to confirm, #Ditto doesn't work with #ActivityPub as well, does it?

I didn't think so, just had someone claim as such so I figured I'd ask.

AFAIK, you have to choose between Soapbox with ActivityPub or Soapbox with Ditto/Nostr.

It'd be cool if it worked with both. However, I don't see how that would be possible, since they both use Webfinger. But maybe I just don't understand it all.

If anyone knows more, please enlighten me, thanks.

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Ditto works with both. In a nutshell: it's a Nostr relay that translates to ActivityPub, that happens to have a Mastodon API layer that hooks up to SoapBox.

Basically, you can use it for both networks at the same time, and you benefit from being able to use Mastodon apps as well.

🤔this seems to imply it's one or the other but both work with the Mastodon API so apps work. Do you have it running for both? Or know of an instance where it works for both so I can try? However, I've just been made aware that the mastodon API part is apparently broken. IceCubes nor Mona work with it right now. I won't try it on my on server till that's fixed.

Nostr, or rather the optional NIP-05, does not use Webfinger. It uses its own "/.well-known" URL and response format. But a Webfinger response can also contain an arbitrary amount of different links for different services.