Follow Requests

Owncast accepts inbound Follow requests from other ActivityPub Actors. When a Follow request is received Owncast will add the Actor to the list of Followers for the Owncast instance and display it in chat.

Request

Example expected inbound Follow request

{
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "id": "https://example.com/activities/123",
  "type": "Follow",
  "actor": "https://example.com/users/123",
  "object": "https://example.com/users/456"
}

Accept

Example expected inbound Follow accept

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