Is Firefish gone for good now? Many of the links I had saved are redirecting to other stuff now - eviltoast

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
    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I’m fairly sure I was able to comment on Lemmy threads while experimenting with Firefish like a year ago - though it of course struggled with displaying threaded content.

      • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        3 months 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·
          3 months 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]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            3·
            3 months 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