Links below:

  • https://firefish.social/ - Redirects to a Korean warranty (?) company
  • joinfirefish.org - Domain is available, but very expensive
  • https://vancity.social/ - Seems to time out after some time
  • kopper [they/them]English
    2·
    29 days ago

    that post will have been a text post, not a link (those are likely broken now, and certainly were broken a year ago due to a bug in the misskey 12 codebase inherited by firefish and forks. modern versions of misskey just fixed that a couple months ago)

    the username thing does not completely break federation, but it will randomly confuse instances. there’s a 50/50 chance whether an instance will get the correct user it asks or not, and once an instance resolves a user once it’ll have a similar 50/50 chance for each profile update (icon change, sidebar change, etc.). of course, if there’s no conflicting user for a community (or vice versa) then federation will be fine.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
      2·
      29 days ago

      Ah, I see! Thanks for the explanation. I’d go back and check but firefish.social isn’t around anymore.

      It’s really a shame since interoperability is such (theoretical) benefit of ActivityPub, but what can you do.

      • kopper [they/them]English
        2·
        29 days ago

        the specs are so open ended that i doubt real interoperability will ever happen. you can break interoperability with basically every other current software out there and still be compliant with the specs