▲ 166 ▼ 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 firelight@startrek.website to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 19 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] julian@activitypub.space 2 points 6 months ago (1 child) Thanks, I mean, how does this work in the backend? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] rimu@piefed.social 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rimu@piefed.social 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. permalink fedilink source parent