Max_P, 11 months ago

The W3C, apparently. It’s both the ID and the URL of the object if you want to refresh it. They seem to suggest doing it that way because the URL of a user profile is going to be guaranteed to be unique, and can only be owned by the owner of the domain.

Lemmy assigns it its own internal ID per instance but it’s only used internally for joins and stuff.

For example, your person ID is feddit.cl/u/nintendiator. If you curl it in ActivityPub format you’ll get your user:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">~ % curl -H "Accept: application/activity+json" https://feddit.cl/u/nintendiator
</span><span style="color:#323232;">{
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  "@context": [.....]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  "type": "Person",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  "id": "https://feddit.cl/u/nintendiator",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  "preferredUsername": "nintendiator",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  "inbox": "https://feddit.cl/u/nintendiator/inbox",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  "outbox": "https://feddit.cl/u/nintendiator/outbox",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  ......
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>