DebirdifyOct 31, 2022

Hello everyone! This is the new official account of the Debirdify app. It helps you finds out which of the people you follow on Twitter are on Mastodon/in the Fediverse already and follow all of them easily.

Try it: https://pruvisto.org/debirdify

We recommend to keep checking it every few days to see if there are new people.

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Show threadAnil MadhavapeddyNov 7, 2022
@debirdify Thanks for setting up debirdify! Just one potential bug: it doesn't seem to follow webfinger redirects. So my account `[email protected]` should connect to `amok.recoil.org` as the server that hosts it (but debirdify is trying to connect to recoil.org directly, which has a webfinger pointer in place)
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@avsm It does follow redirects. But:

manuel@daedalus ~> curl -I "https://recoil.org/.well-known/webfinger?acct:[email protected]"
HTTP/2 404
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000
server: Caddy
date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 10:45:10 GMT

Nov 7, 2022 at 10:46amWeb
Show threadAnil MadhavapeddyNov 7, 2022
@debirdify aha! Thanks for checking -- I've only set up a .well-known/host-meta redirect. Looks like the newer method is to directly set up the webfinger endpoint.
Show threadDebirdifyNov 7, 2022
@avsm Ah, I've never heard of a host-meta redirect. If you explain what that is and how it works I can maybe add support for it.
Show threadAnil MadhavapeddyNov 7, 2022
@debirdify I had to peer at the Mastodon source to see what's going on: the host-meta is queried first, and it contains a webfinger URI template which is then used. This makes it more compatible with Tor and other networks I think. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/lib/webfinger.rb
Show threadAnil MadhavapeddyNov 7, 2022
@debirdify and just found this documentation (on a fork of Mastodon's own docs) which seems to agree https://github.com/felx/mastodon-documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Serving_a_different_domain.md#webfinger
Show threadDebirdifyNov 7, 2022

@avsm That's helpful, thanks. I will implement that soon.

I was trying to find documentation on all of this but couldn't find any, so I just looked at some examples and tried to figure it out by myself.

This might also affect #Fedifinder, so, tagging @Luca

Show threadAnil MadhavapeddyNov 7, 2022
@debirdify @Luca yeah the info is in RFCs (webfinger RFC7033 and host-meta RFC6415) but it's difficult to figure out what's actually used in the wild and how they all tie together. Definitely worth a post once you get it all working to point people to best current practises
Show threadLuca Hammer ENNov 7, 2022
@avsm @[email protected] Thanks.l I hoped to get away with only checking the domains instead of looking for webfingers. New plan is to check the domain and if it fails, look for webfingers.