Make local actor icon optional

If a remote actor has no icon, we show our local default icon.

If we have no icon, we should allow remote instances to show their
default icon, instead of sending ours.

app/activitypub.py

@@ -135,11 +135,6 @@ ME = {
     "url": config.ID + "/",  # XXX: the path is important for Mastodon compat
     "manuallyApprovesFollowers": config.CONFIG.manually_approves_followers,
     "attachment": _LOCAL_ACTOR_METADATA,
-    "icon": {
-        "mediaType": mimetypes.guess_type(config.CONFIG.icon_url)[0],
-        "type": "Image",
-        "url": config.CONFIG.icon_url,
-    },
     "publicKey": {
         "id": f"{config.ID}#main-key",
         "owner": config.ID,
@@ -148,6 +143,13 @@ ME = {
     "tag": dedup_tags(_LOCAL_ACTOR_TAGS),
 }
 
+if config.CONFIG.icon_url:
+    ME["icon"] = {
+        "mediaType": mimetypes.guess_type(config.CONFIG.icon_url)[0],
+        "type": "Image",
+        "url": config.CONFIG.icon_url,
+    }
+
 if ALSO_KNOWN_AS:
     ME["alsoKnownAs"] = [ALSO_KNOWN_AS]
 

app/config.py

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ class Config(pydantic.BaseModel):
     name: str
     summary: str
     https: bool
-    icon_url: str
+    icon_url: str | None = None
     image_url: str | None = None
     secret: str
     debug: bool = False

app/main.py

@@ -1431,7 +1431,7 @@ async def json_feed(
                 ],
             }
         )
-    return {
+    result = {
         "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1",
         "title": f"{LOCAL_ACTOR.display_name}'s microblog'",
         "home_page_url": LOCAL_ACTOR.url,
@@ -1439,10 +1439,12 @@ async def json_feed(
         "author": {
             "name": LOCAL_ACTOR.display_name,
             "url": LOCAL_ACTOR.url,
-            "avatar": LOCAL_ACTOR.icon_url,
         },
         "items": data,
     }
+    if LOCAL_ACTOR.icon_url:
+        result["author"]["avatar"] = LOCAL_ACTOR.icon_url
+    return result
 
 
 async def _gen_rss_feed(
@@ -1454,7 +1456,8 @@ async def _gen_rss_feed(
     fg.description(f"{LOCAL_ACTOR.display_name}'s microblog")
     fg.author({"name": LOCAL_ACTOR.display_name})
     fg.link(href=LOCAL_ACTOR.url, rel="alternate")
-    fg.logo(LOCAL_ACTOR.icon_url)
+    if LOCAL_ACTOR.icon_url:
+        fg.logo(LOCAL_ACTOR.icon_url)
     fg.language("en")
 
     outbox_objects = await _get_outbox_for_feed(db_session)

scripts/config_wizard.py

@@ -75,9 +75,10 @@ def main() -> None:
         proto = "http"
 
     print("Note that you can put your icon/avatar in the static/ directory")
-    dat["icon_url"] = prompt(
+    if icon_url := prompt(
         "icon URL: ", default=f'{proto}://{dat["domain"]}/static/nopic.png'
-    )
+    ):
+        dat["icon_url"] = icon_url
     dat["secret"] = os.urandom(16).hex()
 
     with config_file.open("w") as f: