SlightlyCyberpunk
@evan some of us already do :)
All the code I've written for fedi is fucked if we start getting a bunch of domains per instance though...
I was also wondering how many people there really are who own a domain but don't want to host things but based on the results so far apparently a lot!
Evan Prodromou
@admin Why?
Evan Prodromou
@admin like, how would you even know it's from the same instance? `sharedInbox`?
Evan Prodromou
@admin what are you doing with instance statistics? Why would that be important for federation?
Treat actors like actors; ignore instances. They're not real.
If you block a domain, block all actors on that domain.
SlightlyCyberpunk
@evan yeah that is precisely the problem. What's the response when you hit the API on that domain? Does it appear to be a separate single-user instance even though it isn't, or does it provide the stats for the entire instance resulting in a bunch of false duplicate data?
Edit: Also, how's that work for defederation? The original instance gets a pass because the abusive user brought their own domain and nobody can easily tell who is actually hosting it?
Evan Prodromou
@admin how do you deal with Takahē?
SlightlyCyberpunk
@evan There's a lot of tools -- including a somewhat crappy one that I wrote -- that try to recommend instances for new users who don't know where to register, for one example. The way mine works is by querying instance stats so it can see if registrations are open, what types of media or post lengths are supported, language, user counts, etc. So if users start bringing their own domains I either get my DB cluttered with fake single-user instances or I end up giving someone two dozen suggestions that are actually all the same server. And I'm sure I'm not the only person who has code that will need to be redesigned if that one domain per instance requirement gets broken. And it's a reasonable assumption to make if you're focused on Mastodon, since its configuration files (.env.production) only allow a single domain to be specified.
You could just use it as an alias though:
https://guide.expressional.social/guide/use-your-own-domain/
Evan Prodromou
@admin also, what if the mapped domain just doesn't use nodeinfo?
Evan Prodromou
SlightlyCyberpunk
@evan Not sure what Takahē is other than a bird lol
And it doesn't use nodeinfo, it uses /api/v2/instance...if that's not implemented it'll ignore that host (the goal was specifically to suggest Mastodon hosts, so if it's not Mastodon-based I don't care about it lol)...so yeah good point, maybe the extra domains can just not implement that api, not sure how that might impact Mastodon itself though.
Evan Prodromou
@admin anyway, this sounds like great software. What's the URL?
Evan Prodromou
@admin it worked well for me!
SlightlyCyberpunk
@evan Well, it certainly is not *great* software lol...I dunno, people were saying we needed tools to help newbies find their instance and I had some thoughts so I threw something quick together, didn't seem to get much interest and I certainly don't need it myself so I lost motivation...and now I think Mastodon officially pushes people to particular big instances so there's far less demand for such a thing...
Links are in my bio, although I wanted to make sure it even still works as it's been a while so here you go (it was *not* quite working, but I think it's fixed, so good luck lol)
https://mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com/experiments/index.php
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