Claire [deprecated account] @Thib@sitedethib.com

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#Mastodon 3.2.1 has finally released, with a fix to follow relationships not always being deleted when they should have

However, that fix is not retroactive, so a few months ago, I started writing a proposal for a mechanism to synchronize the following state across instances: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/14510

This is something that is actually pretty hard to do in a way that is correct, efficient and future-proof.

Today, I've been working on it again to incorporate feedback from other fediverse implementors.

I think I'm at a point where I will accept this solution isn't as generic and future-proof as it could, but clearly document the condition in which it does work, and allow people who'd break those conditions (I don't know of any, especially using Mastodon) to opt out of it.

As for providing a truly generic and future-proof solution, there seem to be ways to do it, but they're significantly more tricky to handle, and given the serious consequences of followers desynchronization, I'd like a solution to be adopted soon, even if it ends up being an interim one.

#Mastodev #ActivityPub

Hey, Mastodon moderators: when one of your users report a remote person, would knowing whether the report was forwarded be useful?

If so, could you explain why?

#Mastodev

In the end, we are not going to drop support for host-meta but we are still making a few changes that may affect some instances:
1. drop support for XRD on the LLRD endpoint: in practice this doesn't seem to be an issue, but who knows
2. only fall-back to host-meta if the webfinger query raises a 404, and not if it has any other status. So if you don't have a working redirection, check that you're not throwing a 401, 403, a 500 or anything else there

I'll try finding affected instances and contacting them, but please have a look if you're running an unusual config

Attention to #Mastoadmins

We are considering dropping support for host-meta and XRD support (inherited from GNU Social/OStatus) in next #Mastodon version, as the webfinger spec is enough and simpler.

As far as we know, no fediverse implementation relies solely on host-meta or XRD, so that wouldn't be a big change.

That being said, some deployments do (partly because of a guide I wrote ages ago, in OStatus times) depend on host-meta. That could be the case, for instance, if you installed Mastodon so that it is on social.domain.org but serving @foo@domain.org. In this case, please check that https://domain.org/.well-known/webfinger redirects to, or proxies, https://social.domain.org/.well-known/webfinger.

With nginx, this could be done like this:

location /.well-known/webfinger {
        return 301 https://social.example.org$request_uri;
}

#Mastoadmin #Mastodev

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it's been a while i hadn't put that much pigments on my face