In this blog post, we will explain how to make your blog discoverable in the Fediverse as an account, and also address some of the annoying pitfalls I encountered. So let’s get started. You can also navigate the other parts of this series here. Overview To enable discovery, we need to implement the webfinger endpoint and the actor file. As shown in the diagram, Mastodon will first reach the webfinger, which points to the actor file. The actor file, in turn, points to other endpoints such as outbox, inbox, followers, and following. I have included this diagram so you can refer back to it for visual cues while reading this post.