Communities follow FEP-1b12, circles federate to their members only

Communities:
- a post addressed to a community (to, cc or audience) is accepted
  according to its posting policy - followers, anyone, or moderators -
  and GroupDistributor announces the whole activity with `audience` to
  the community's followers, plus the object for new posts so Mastodon
  shows them; updates and deletes of community content are announced too;
- top-level posts are Pages with a name (the title, or a headline from
  the text); /flock counts members, /wardens lists moderators;
- a Mastodon client posts into a community by mentioning it, or into a
  remote group, which sets `audience`;
- an Announce of an activity from a remote group a persona follows (Lemmy)
  is followed through: the object is fetched from its own origin, kept with
  its AudienceURI, and fanned out to the group's local followers; updates
  are applied in place and deletes checked against the origin.

Circles stop being local-only: an undiscoverable Group actor whose follows
are all requests the owner approves; posts addressed to the circle and its
/flock and delivered to members' own inboxes, never announced, never
public; a remote member's post into the circle is accepted from members
only. SignedFetchAuthorizer serves circle posts and collections only to a
signed request from a member or a member server's instance actor - 404 for
anyone else. Circles never surface in search, lookups, mentions, account
ids or profile pages.

Federation:SecureMode requires a valid signature on every GET under
/peasants except the instance actor. Group forms take a posting policy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012CzABvBkbcFqoHdmi8b9WB

PrivaPub/Federation/Controllers/PeasantsController.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Filters;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.RateLimiting;
 
 using MongoDB.Entities;
@@ -15,12 +17,15 @@ using PrivaPub.Domain.Privacy;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Actors;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Rendering;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Inbox;
+using PrivaPub.Federation.Signing;
+using PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Http;
+using PrivaPub.Models.Group;
 using PrivaPub.Infrastructure;
 
 namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 {
 	[ApiController, Route("peasants")]
-	public class PeasantsController : ControllerBase
+	public class PeasantsController : ControllerBase, IAsyncActionFilter
 	{
 		const string ActivityContentType = "application/activity+json; charset=utf-8";
 		const int OutboxSize = 20;
@@ -29,10 +34,14 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 		readonly IInboxReceiver _inbox;
 		readonly DbEntities _dbEntities;
 		readonly ILogger<PeasantsController> _logger;
+		readonly ISignedFetchAuthorizer _fetches;
+		readonly IOptionsMonitor<FederationOptions> _federation;
 
 		public PeasantsController(ILocalActorService localActors, IInboxReceiver inbox, DbEntities dbEntities,
-			ILogger<PeasantsController> logger)
+			ILogger<PeasantsController> logger, ISignedFetchAuthorizer fetches, IOptionsMonitor<FederationOptions> federation)
 		{
+			_fetches = fetches;
+			_federation = federation;
 			_localActors = localActors;
 			_inbox = inbox;
 			_dbEntities = dbEntities;
@@ -113,6 +122,34 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 			return local is not { IsFederated: true } ? NotFound() : Activity(ActivityPubRenderer.OrderedCollection(local.Following, 0, default));
 		}
 
+		[HttpGet, Route("{actor}/flock")]
+		public async Task<IActionResult> Members(string actor, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			var local = await _localActors.FindByUserName(actor, token);
+			if (local is not { IsFederated: true, Kind: LocalActorKind.Group })
+				return NotFound();
+			var group = await _dbEntities.Groups.MatchID(local.Id).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
+			if (local.IsCircle && !SignedFetchAuthorizer.MayReadCircle(group, await _fetches.Requester(Request, token)))
+				return NotFound();
+			return Activity(ActivityPubRenderer.OrderedCollection(local.Flock, group.Members.Count, default));
+		}
+
+		[HttpGet, Route("{actor}/wardens")]
+		public async Task<IActionResult> Moderators(string actor, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			var local = await _localActors.FindByUserName(actor, token);
+			if (local is not { IsFederated: true, Kind: LocalActorKind.Group })
+				return NotFound();
+			var group = await _dbEntities.Groups.MatchID(local.Id).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
+			if (local.IsCircle && !SignedFetchAuthorizer.MayReadCircle(group, await _fetches.Requester(Request, token)))
+				return NotFound();
+			var moderators = new List<JsonNode>();
+			foreach (var member in group.Members.Where(m => !m.IsForeign && m.Role is GroupRole.Owner or GroupRole.Moderator))
+				if (await _localActors.FindById(LocalActorKind.Person, member.AvatarId, token) is { } moderator)
+					moderators.Add(moderator.Uri);
+			return Activity(ActivityPubRenderer.OrderedCollection(local.Wardens, moderators.Count, moderators));
+		}
+
 		[HttpGet, Route("{actor}/trophies")]
 		public async Task<IActionResult> Featured(string actor, CancellationToken token)
 		{
@@ -145,6 +182,12 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 		public async Task<IActionResult> Post(string actor, string postId, CancellationToken token)
 		{
 			var (local, post) = await PublicPost(actor, postId, token);
+			if (post == default && await CirclePost(actor, postId, token) is { } circlePost)
+			{
+				var circleNote = ActivityPubRenderer.Note(circlePost.Post, circlePost.Author, circlePost.Circle, circlePost.Post.InReplyToURI);
+				circleNote["@context"] = ActivityPubRenderer.Context();
+				return Activity(circleNote);
+			}
 			if (post == default)
 				return await Tombstone(actor, postId, token) ?? NotFound();
 			if (WantsHtml())
@@ -202,6 +245,20 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 			return (local, post);
 		}
 
+		async Task<(LocalActor Author, LocalActor Circle, PostEntity Post)?> CirclePost(string actor, string postId, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			var local = await _localActors.FindByUserName(actor, token);
+			if (local is not { Kind: LocalActorKind.Person })
+				return default;
+			var post = await _dbEntities.Posts
+				.Match(p => p.ID == postId && p.GroupUserId == local.Id && !p.IsFederatedCopy && !p.DeletedAt.HasValue && p.Visibility == PostVisibility.Circle)
+				.ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
+			var circle = post == default ? default : await _dbEntities.Groups.MatchID(post.GroupId).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
+			if (circle == default || !SignedFetchAuthorizer.MayReadCircle(circle, await _fetches.Requester(Request, token)))
+				return default;
+			return (local, _localActors.FromGroup(circle), post);
+		}
+
 		async Task<IActionResult> Tombstone(string actor, string postId, CancellationToken token)
 		{
 			var local = await _localActors.FindByUserName(actor, token);
@@ -257,6 +314,19 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 				&& !accept.Contains("ld+json", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
 		}
 
+		[NonAction]
+		public async Task OnActionExecutionAsync(ActionExecutingContext context, ActionExecutionDelegate next)
+		{
+			if (_federation.CurrentValue.SecureMode && HttpMethods.IsGet(Request.Method)
+				&& !string.Equals(context.RouteData.Values["actor"] as string, LocalActorService.InstanceUserName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+				&& await _fetches.Requester(Request, HttpContext.RequestAborted) == default)
+			{
+				context.Result = StatusCode(StatusCodes.Status401Unauthorized);
+				return;
+			}
+			await next();
+		}
+
 		IActionResult Answer(InboxResult result)
 		{
 			if (result.Error != default)