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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 12 hours ago by firelight@startrek.website 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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[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It looks like this - https://piefed.social/c/adultswim@lemm.ee

[–] julian@activitypub.space 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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.