As it stands right now, it looks like we have to just judge based off of how old posts are to see if we can still interact with a community.
As it stands right now, it looks like we have to just judge based off of how old posts are to see if we can still interact with a community.
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ptz@dubvee.org · 46 pts · 171d
You mean like if there's a community called
!cats@example.comand your home instance no longer federates with the instanceexample.com?If so, I'll add that to Tesseract as it sounds useful.
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 171d
this would be an amazing addition! It would help avoid the disconnect between de-federated instances/communities
ptz@dubvee.org · 13 pts · 171d
Added :) I also disabled the "Create Post" button if the community is on a defederated instance even though, technically, you can still post to your instance's local copy (it just won't federate).
Edit: This only works one way. i.e. it can only know if your instance is defederated from the community's. If the community's instance is defederated from yours, there will be no indicator because there's no way to do it without a remote lookup which is both unreliable and inefficient at scale.
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 170d
That's amazing to see, Regardless if it's only one direction, that should still help wonders, thank you!
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 171d
Are you the creator of Tesseract? I love it except it doesn't save my settings or my favorites and multi-communities. I'm not sure why and I've checked in the last 2 weeks. It's been doing it a long time.
admiralpatrick@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 170d
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 170d
Thank you for explaining that. I clear the cache quite often. I haven't tried to save the favorites in a bit because I thought it was tied to the settings. Changing the settings each time isn't a big deal, but saving favs kind of is. I'll give it another try since it's pretty great.
ozoned@piefed.social · 26 pts · 171d
Bonfire just instituted a "Federated" flag in their alpha. I think this could be useful.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 17 pts · 171d
This is already in nightly, you can see it on the test instance here https://voyager.lemmy.ml/c/photography@lemmy.ml
Dave@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 171d
Make sure you visit in a browser aince apps wouldn't have implemented an in development feature.
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 171d
The best tool I know of is the Federation Checker, but something like it should definitely should be built into clients.
Notably, Beehaw is defederated from .world and sh.itjust.works, while dbzer0, quokk.au, and anarchist.nexus are defederated from feddit.org.
yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 171d
That's a handy tool, thanks for posting it. Do you happen to know how the lists are sorted? It's not alphabetical.
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 171d
Not sure how; it's also not by defederation date, otherwise feddit.org would be at or near the bottom of the list for dbzer0.
admin@scrapetacular.ydns.eu · 8 pts · 170d
I feel like there should be an "are you alive" federation activity in activitypub, as well as an "I'm back" activity.
Servers go up and down enough that maybe it should be part of the spec
julian@activitypub.space · 6 pts · 170d
A heartbeat activity! Or maybe a ping.
I like it! Maybe I'll write an FEP for it, lol.
rimu@piefed.social · 7 pts · 171d
PieFed does this.
julian@activitypub.space · 5 pts · 170d
How does this work anyway, and does it match with Lemmy's approach?
I noticed crust was saying my dev instance was not federating anymore, which was neat. It was because I don't leave my dev instance online all the time 😁
rimu@piefed.social · 2 pts · 170d
It looks like this - https://piefed.social/c/adultswim@lemm.ee
julian@activitypub.space · 2 pts · 170d
Thanks, I mean, how does this work in the backend?
rimu@piefed.social · 5 pts · 170d
Oh :)
Once per day a request is made all instances to retrieve the list of their admins. If that request fails then they're flagged as 'dormant'. If dormant for 5 days, flagged as 'gone forever' and then PieFed doesn't try to federate with them again and all their communities have that warning on them.
If any Activity arrives from a dormant / gone instance then it's restored to full operation.