Standards

Athenana is a private, invitation-only place to keep things — but the ways in and out of it are open standards rather than an API of its own invention. This page is what a client, a server or a person can rely on it to speak, with the addresses to speak to. Everything listed is implemented and running; what is not implemented is named at the bottom rather than left for you to discover.

Micropub

Any Micropub client can post here — Quill, Indigenous, a Shortcut, an editor plugin — without either side knowing about the other.

What a post becomes here:

A note, a highlight and an image arrive private; a link follows the same rule a link saved any other way does. Posting something never publishes it.

IndieAuth

How a client gets a token without anybody pasting one. Signing in as a person is separate and unchanged — this is the authorization layer clients use.

PKCE is required, and S256 is the only method. The specification permits falling back to a flow without it; this server does not, and plain is absent from the metadata rather than listed and then refused.

Four scopes — create, read, update and delete. A scope this server does not implement is dropped rather than refusing the whole request, and the consent screen shows exactly the subset that was understood, so you approve what you will actually get. Every token is listed on the account it belongs to and can be revoked there one at a time.

Webmention

Both directions, and neither is automatic in the way people expect.

A mention that arrives is reviewed by the owner, not published. Nothing you send appears on a page here on your say-so.

WebFinger and ActivityPub

An account with a blog can be followed from Mastodon and anywhere else that speaks ActivityPub.

This is deliberately partial, and the limit is worth knowing before you build against it. Follow and Undo are honoured, and posts are delivered to followers. Replies, likes, boosts and mentions arriving here are acknowledged and then dropped — accepting them would mean storing and moderating other people's writing, which is not what this is. Nothing you send to that inbox will appear anywhere, and nobody is notified.

Feeds

What is not implemented

Named here so nobody builds against something that is not there.

Something behaving differently from what this page says is a bug worth telling us about: support@wyome.com.