Talk:WebFinger

I just found out about this via a video from a Debian conference from this month. I don't know if it'll go anywhere, but I'd keep it here just in case. Necessity of a thing like this is undisputable. -Paxcoder (talk) 20:34, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Ref. 4 is a Hacker News comment, which doesn't seem very reliable. PoroCYon (talk) 18:23, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Mastodon

Now with Mastodon taking off webfinger will be critical for sites that want to provide verification or easy discovery of accounts. Kurtseifried2 (talk) 06:08, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

GNU social use of WebFinger

No citation is needed for uncontroversial statements of fact, so I am removing the "citation needed" notice. As it says on WP's GNU social article, it was a continuation of StatusNet, for which the OStatus protocol was invented. If you look at the WP article for OStatus, WebFinger was a component of the protocol. Primary sources also confirm this fact, like this from the blog of a GNU social core developer; https://web.archive.org/web/20160722114258/https://blog.mmn-o.se/2013/10/02/gnu-social-now-supports-webfinger-rfc7033/ Danylstrype (talk) 03:02, 7 August 2025 (UTC)