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There should be an indicator when an instance no longer federates with a community besides posts no longer loading (startrek.website)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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 😁

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks, I mean, how does this work in the backend?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago*

    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.

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