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given: "Alice" created an actor on "abel" called "Alice"

send.Alice.request.create_actor
{
  "base_url": "http://abel",
  "preferred_username": "Alice",
  "profile": {},
  "automatically_accept_followers": null,
  "name": null
}
receive.Alice.response.create_actor
{
  "attachment": null,
  "published": "2025-12-19T09:48:33.248027",
  "@context": [
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
    "https://w3id.org/security/v1",
    {
      "manuallyApprovesFollowers": "as:manuallyApprovesFollowers"
    }
  ],
  "publicKey": {
    "id": "http://abel/actor/GCRcPCiZrNw6uhX-sKzlVQ#legacy-key-1",
    "owner": "http://abel/actor/GCRcPCiZrNw6uhX-sKzlVQ",
    "publicKeyPem": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAwZGizypQTsEP0MA1QsSu\nE7gbCAQoNSl8o+nB3GYg6snGM+GsLRAjDY9iKgMCj9Tx/7GIqqHs7TzaXLHxSPA4\nMjuVHgrS3kmcrfLnAbK6UflNEU5CxIlU/I4oMftsdK3uoQ7STsbsWRc6avE7P0i8\n/ye+oQBsGbPVrRv/2p9Sy4sw2slg0lC0WzKs6iucVodlPChou0zIEKqJocYNvJrA\nZu6WfRNz2+QFcLaRomDX8DzYiJp3Ve2H4ZAc//knAvuN1S6Qq56AbOarkVTbeNQO\n1bVfqxdk3Na7otI1OC3MDuyeg+YjBqk/e2CO1rSKd9EMMpufJbnIVwofgIVf6iv4\n0QIDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"
  },
  "id": "http://abel/actor/GCRcPCiZrNw6uhX-sKzlVQ",
  "type": "Person",
  "inbox": "http://abel/inbox/EoOfUOkjEnp36lj4fCSfFA",
  "outbox": "http://abel/actor/GCRcPCiZrNw6uhX-sKzlVQ/outbox",
  "followers": "http://abel/actor/GCRcPCiZrNw6uhX-sKzlVQ/followers",
  "following": "http://abel/actor/GCRcPCiZrNw6uhX-sKzlVQ/following",
  "preferredUsername": "Alice",
  "name": "Alice",
  "identifiers": [
    "acct:Alice@abel",
    "http://abel/actor/GCRcPCiZrNw6uhX-sKzlVQ"
  ],
  "endpoints": {
    "sharedInbox": "http://abel/shared_inbox"
  },
  "manuallyApprovesFollowers": true
}

when: One queries webfinger for "acct:Alice@abel"

then: The actor URI of "Alice" is returned