Ryan Barrett
Ryan Barrett
This is https://console.cloud.google.com/errors/detail/CMDC_cirnMT0FQ;filter=%5B%22AssertionError%22%5D;time=P7D;locations=global?project=bridgy-federated
Background in #911, e4db9d6
Ugh, this is difficult. I'm not finding a good way to identify whether a site owns their own webfinger without false positives or false negatives.
Here are some example results for webfinger requests for `resource=acct:[domain]@[domain]` and `resource=https://[domain]/` ([FEP d556](https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/d556/fep-d556.md)): * mastodon.social (Mastodon): 200 `application/jrd+json; charset=utf-8` * pixelfed.social (Pixelfed): 400 `text/html` * misskey.io (Misskey): 404, no...
@Tamschi this is for web sites specifically, so we're always looking at the home page, ie `/`. You're right that we could still bridge web sites that serve their own...
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Thanks for the discussion, all! And thanks @qazmlp for linking to https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/discussions/1118 . We don't really need to reopen the whole opt in vs opt out debate in general, but...
@h-2 if you or any other Mastodon admin set this auto-following up, please let me know how it goes, I'd love to hear!
Good points!
When an instance is ready to try this, I can exempt them from the spam filter req'ts.