<![CDATA[Remote Inbox Architecture]]>Remote Inbox Architecture

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This, the Remote Inbox Architecture, is an architecture for a Fediverse back-end server that I think could be useful.

Here is how it works — there are (at least) 2 servers involved: (1) the main back-end server, and (2) a remote inbox server.

The actor file on main back-end server "points" the inbox to the remote server.

It separates the user's content front the front-end related functionality

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]]>https://bb.devnull.land/topic/8049c2a3-f8ee-4456-a443-4397fb38c818/remote-inbox-architectureRSS for NodeSun, 17 May 2026 14:28:02 GMTSun, 17 May 2026 04:44:14 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Remote Inbox Architecture on Sun, 17 May 2026 13:42:22 GMT]]>@darius

I had a typo in there. It should have said:

"It separates the user's content FROM the front-end related functionality"

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/reiver/statuses/116590204833789540https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/reiver/statuses/116590204833789540Sun, 17 May 2026 13:42:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Remote Inbox Architecture on Sun, 17 May 2026 10:22:17 GMT]]>I think that is already achievable with the current spec, the inbox can be a URL to anywhere in the actor object:

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#actor-objects

  "inbox": "https://kenzoishii.example.com/inbox.json",

This can be any url with any domain

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://hayu.sh/objects/b963c69d-040e-47d5-9d04-ff00d1ab5e64https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://hayu.sh/objects/b963c69d-040e-47d5-9d04-ff00d1ab5e64Sun, 17 May 2026 10:22:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Remote Inbox Architecture on Sun, 17 May 2026 07:28:59 GMT]]>@reiver I see - the statement "It separates the user's content front the front-end related functionality" is confusing to me but I understand the intent now

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://friend.camp/users/darius/statuses/116588736636398190https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://friend.camp/users/darius/statuses/116588736636398190Sun, 17 May 2026 07:28:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Remote Inbox Architecture on Sun, 17 May 2026 07:09:21 GMT]]>@reiver @darius My favorite part of that experiment is that the AP inbox server is no longer online (it was just an ngrok tunnel) but that bucket still serves all the data.

So even though the "inbox server" disappeared, my identity and posts are all still there.

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://zomglol.wtf/users/jamie/statuses/116588659471332546https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://zomglol.wtf/users/jamie/statuses/116588659471332546Sun, 17 May 2026 07:09:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Remote Inbox Architecture on Sun, 17 May 2026 07:04:29 GMT]]>RE: https://zomglol.wtf/@jamie/111038100520197521

@reiver @darius Can confirm. I did this a couple years ago using an S3 (well, DigitalOcean Spaces) bucket that stored static JSON and an "ActivityPub concierge" that manages it. The outbox was part of that static JSON.

Thread about it here:

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://zomglol.wtf/users/jamie/statuses/116588640332966852https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://zomglol.wtf/users/jamie/statuses/116588640332966852Sun, 17 May 2026 07:04:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Remote Inbox Architecture on Sun, 17 May 2026 05:03:13 GMT]]>@darius

Not for this (Remote Inbox) architecture.

The outbox is related to the user's content, so it stays with where the user's content is.

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/reiver/statuses/116588163485812858https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/reiver/statuses/116588163485812858Sun, 17 May 2026 05:03:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Remote Inbox Architecture on Sun, 17 May 2026 04:54:00 GMT]]>@reiver interesting. shouldn't the outbox be on (2)? In theory that is a place to get content and feeds from

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://friend.camp/users/darius/statuses/116588127223567844https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://friend.camp/users/darius/statuses/116588127223567844Sun, 17 May 2026 04:54:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Remote Inbox Architecture on Sun, 17 May 2026 04:48:43 GMT]]>Remote Inbox Architecture

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The Remote Inbox server deals with incoming activities, objects, etc, from other users..

The front-end can get the inbox (and other feeds') data from the Remote Inbox server.

(You'd probably want to store cached data from the Fediverse elsewhere from these two servers, as I've said before. But, that is a separate thread.)

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