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given: "Alice" created an actor on "abel" called "Alice" with username "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": "2026-03-20T15:16:21.155261",
  "@context": [
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
    "https://w3id.org/security/v1",
    {
      "manuallyApprovesFollowers": "as:manuallyApprovesFollowers"
    }
  ],
  "publicKey": {
    "id": "http://abel/actor/5_fHKQN1YH8fNRBYHRDymQ#legacy-key-1",
    "owner": "http://abel/actor/5_fHKQN1YH8fNRBYHRDymQ",
    "publicKeyPem": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAp+xoXKVRW1Nb7xyCV8ju\nJWOfl4VeEamxzQPgsdUhQ2jOymRH6ass7CJZAu4U/UqS3r5wRbe3ixedOzhben0P\npyJL1FvJ4Dyq8yJMzhN9X5HGlA4hMIRWxp4zErRavXvv2S8uHdhnQXhaw8wEj5vb\nWISt2r3JtS3epKsCwZjtxMf8xiNjDIs6nCnW3oOS7OficUOngD6j7ub+g2ugr/7M\nKU61AGvpIwxamQRlvZsJPquEn14+vgagY88sCvcEbpxogDISnYDq3AjybKvHkitR\n4yF7DgyUL3EJ8GT9OSFZ/EldYFcCGw+3M8odsTsLIF0eUN1fAdvYUGFd9gv86gQp\nSQIDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"
  },
  "id": "http://abel/actor/5_fHKQN1YH8fNRBYHRDymQ",
  "type": "Person",
  "inbox": "http://abel/inbox/SZqTY9hf3iTs9QDze3WL2A",
  "outbox": "http://abel/actor/5_fHKQN1YH8fNRBYHRDymQ/outbox",
  "followers": "http://abel/actor/5_fHKQN1YH8fNRBYHRDymQ/followers",
  "following": "http://abel/actor/5_fHKQN1YH8fNRBYHRDymQ/following",
  "preferredUsername": "Alice",
  "name": "Alice",
  "identifiers": [
    "acct:Alice@abel",
    "http://abel/actor/5_fHKQN1YH8fNRBYHRDymQ"
  ],
  "endpoints": {
    "sharedInbox": "http://abel/shared_inbox"
  },
  "manuallyApprovesFollowers": true
}

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

then: The actor URI of "Alice" is returned