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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) reply

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

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) reply