mastohost, 1 month ago

@mro Hello, not sure I understand your question are you asking about https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#web_domain webfinger configuration?

@liaizon @demo

mro, 1 month ago

Thanks @mastohost, meanwhile @liaizon lifted the mystery. The address @wake.st is somehow resolved but not a la rfc7033. Because $ curl -L 'https://wake.st/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:liaizon@wake.st' is a 404. There seems to be non-RFC mechanism called node-info kicking in, which is a bit sad but I think that's how things are.

Thanks for having looked into it!

liaizon, 1 month ago

@mro are you not yet implementing NodeInfo in Seppo? http://nodeinfo.diaspora.software/
https://github.com/jhass/nodeinfo/blob/main/PROTOCOL.md

mro, 1 month ago

@liaizon no. It's mostly marketing as far as I understood it.

liaizon, 1 month ago

@mro marketing? understanding the dynamics of what servers are using what software is very different from marketing. I follow all sorts of projects that use the nodeinfo data in ways that I find very important. a ton of different dynamics are not possible without some mechanism for understanding what server is running what software and that mechanism is NodeInfo

mastohost, 1 month ago

@mro @liaizon they are using the old /.well-known/host-meta that Mastodon used to recommend in the past, you can see here an old copy https://github.com/felx/mastodon-documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Serving_a_different_domain.md

In that specific case they are using a static XML, see last example on my instructions https://masto.host/mastodon-usernames-different-from-the-domain-used-for-installation/

liaizon, 1 month ago

@mastohost I should probably switch this to the new way now that this is not the recommended way. What exactly do I need to add to https://wake.st (hosted on github pages) to move to the new way that is recommended?

mastohost, 1 month ago

@liaizon The recommended way will not work on GitHub. At least AFAIK they don't offer redirects like it's recommended: https://masto.host/mastodon-usernames-different-from-the-domain-used-for-installation/