FINGER.FEDI.PUB
✦ SOCIALIZE LIKE IT'S 70s ✦
Before Twitter. Before Facebook. Before the web itself — there was finger. A dead-simple protocol from 1971 that let you look up anyone on the network. We brought it back. For the Fediverse.
// try it now
$
finger Gargron@mastodon.social@finger.fedi.pub
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$
finger murat@muratcorlu.com@finger.fedi.pub
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$
finger synapsmedia@synapsmedia.com@finger.fedi.pub
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Replace with any Fediverse handle. Works with Mastodon, Ghost, Pleroma, Misskey, and more.
// how it works
1
Your terminal opens a raw TCP connection to port 79 on this server — exactly as specified in RFC 1288, December 1991.
2
This proxy resolves the handle via WebFinger on the target domain's /.well-known/webfinger endpoint.
3
It fetches the ActivityPub actor and their public outbox, then formats profile + recent posts as plain 7-bit ASCII.
4
The result streams back to your terminal over the same TCP connection, and closes. No tracking. No cookies. No JavaScript. Just text.