Rairii, 7 months ago

@pixelfed hey, wanted to mention something about fedidb

https://fedidb.org/network/instance/loforo.com

this server loforo.com runs a custom activitypub implementation, and also has a custom mastodon api implementation that claims to be 4.0.2

so it should really be listed as its own thing

pixelfed, 7 months ago

@Rairii then it should report a different software in the nodeinfo, that is what FediDB uses to determine software like most other crawlers

Rairii, 7 months ago

@pixelfed unfortunately it doesn't, which is why i mention it

pixelfed, 7 months ago

@Rairii https://loforo.com/nodeinfo/2.0 reports mastodon, version 4.0.2

They should really change that if they want to be differentiated

Rairii, 7 months ago

@pixelfed i wonder if they deliberately call themselves mastodon because some clients refuse to use any server that doesn't even if it supports the mastodon api :/

pixelfed, 7 months ago

@Rairii that shouldn't be the case, we are compatible with mastodon clients and we use our own software name

Rairii, 7 months ago

@pixelfed i heard at least one client does that. anyway i just thought i'd let you know because i doubt they'll fix it any time soon