The requirement of managing an LDAP or AD directory service just to get some auth for NFS is a dealbreaker for like 99% of people. It's such a dumb protocol for the average user and was designed with only huge corporate clients in mind.
Just give people a simple password auth or let them exchange private/public keys between the devices that need to connect!
Is bluesky also activity pub?
Why are you trying to maintain an instance list? Just ask the user to input their instance URL. It will simplify the code and make it extensible to self-hosted instances and you don't have to try to list every lemmy instance in existance.
I cannot fathom what a respectable website would need with a port scan. They should normally just be listening to/broadcasting on 80/443. Is it looking to see if the normal html ports are remapped? That's the only reason I could imagine.
Does anyone have any recommended bookmarklets that make using Fediverse services easier? I don’t really want to install a billion plugins for chrome to make them useable, so bookmarklets in a folder is preferable to me. If anyone has any ones they use that would be helpful.
I do have a few I personally use:
Share to Mastodon
https://github.com/corbindavenport/share-to-mastodon/blob/main/BOOKMARKLET.md
Redirect to Follow Mastodon Account
https://github.com/bramus/mastodon-profile-redirect/tree/main/bookmarklet
Redirect to follow Lemmy Community
https://gist.github.com/Nitrousoxide/0ad922d431749d6e4f7c9a35d40da4dc