New update just dropped with some cool new features.
More Fediverse Software
The Fediseer API knowledge has been expanded to handle better some more fediverse software. Specifically it will now try to discover misskey admins, and it can better go through the firefish and mastodon API.
Uptime and Refresh
The Fediseer will now periodically (twice per day) attempt to refresh the info from instances it knows about. It will just check the node and instance info APIs for the relevant info and update its database in case it’s out of date. This will allow us, say, to know when an instance who used to have completely open registrations without captcha, switched to better control registrations.
This process will also be used to mark instances being down. Any instance with 1-2 consecutive failures, will be marked as “unreachable”. 3-60 will mark it as “offline” and any more will mark it a decommissioned. In the future I plan to handle decommissioned instances differently.
User Registration info
To help with figuring out if an instance is a good candidate for a guarantee, we now report more fields relevant to making this decisions, for example whether that instance requires application approval or if they’re using a captcha
Also ,gentle reminder to also now and then check the solicitations page to see if any new instances is asking for a guarantee! If you see anyone you can verify is not a spam instance, place guarantee for them!
Funding
Finally, I want to mention that we’ve opened a liberapay funding for the fediseer development. If you think this tool is helping you work as fediverse instance administrators, please do consider sponsoring our infrastructure and further development: