Trying to follow the creator of the new Fediverse software Epicyon (to check federation).
Got a an error POSTing to the inbox (400).
Look at source code, and see getNicknameFromActor(actor: str) -> str:. The "nickname" is extracted using "well-known" path prefix in the URL.
The nickname is not part of the URL in microblog.pub, it's in the actor payload.
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