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Developer Toby Jaffey has launched a library that brings microcontrollers to the "Fediverse," offering Espressif ESP32 users the chance to build devices capable of posting to the Mastodon social network: Lyuba.

"Motivation Several features would benefit from or require the existence of an ActivityPub actor representing a Mastodon instance. This actor could for instance be used to sign every fetch request (..."

Web finger is used to do account to AP actor URI resolution by Mastodon. It's not part of the ActivityPub specification itself.

Fully Managed (paid) Mastodon Hosting

Wildebeest is an open-source, easy-to-deploy ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server built entirely on top of Cloudflare's Supercloud.

Discussion about the rationale for why Mastodon doesn't support C2S. (My opinion: the arguments are weak and confuse the concept of a general client *API* with a client user interface implementation.)

Quickly design and test ActivityPub objects with mock servers of popular projects like Mastodon and Pixelfed. (Not released as of September 18, 2023)

A tutorial for using the Mastodon OAuth endpoint. The example is C#, but most of the tutorial is not language-specific.

Discussion of Mastodon HTTP Signatures with examples in Node.js.

The question was asked in a Python context, but the answer is mostly general.