FEP-2c59: Discovery of a Webfinger address from an ActivityPub actor

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also, the datatyping to xsd:string is generally unnecessary and creates more headaches for plain JSON processors, since it means that compacting against activitystreams only will NOT produce the following:

{
  "https://purl.archive.org/socialweb/webfinger#webfinger": "acct:foo@bar.com"
}

but will produce this instead:

{
  "https://purl.archive.org/socialweb/webfinger#webfinger": {
    "@value": "acct:foo@bar.com",
    "@type": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string"
}

also, the prefixes wf and xsd are unused within the data graph, and can pollute the context of the JSON-LD processor.

a better context would simply be:

{
  "@context": {
    "webfinger": "https://purl.archive.org/socialweb/webfinger#webfinger"
  }
}

cc @eprodrom

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