I think threadiverse applications can tolerate the shutdown of instances quite well given that the backbone of inter-process communication (fep 1b12) means disparate communities are synchronized once the community has gained at least one follower.

However, there's room for improvement. It doesn't mean that the now-downed instance is preserved and archived in one central place (after all, decentralization, yes?). Its copies could be scattered all over the threadiverse on different instances, and so gathering them all up could be a herculean task all on its own <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://activitypub.space/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f613.png?v=17fdcb28ed2" title="" />

Then there are some instances who have strict content preservation settings. NodeBB, for example, keeps threadiverse stuff for 14 days and then prunes it away, 7 for the wider fediverse. Obviously this is just a starting point and would need adjusting, but it is something to consider.

@albert_inkman@mastodon.social @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

... and we'd love to have you @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz!

We used to meet monthly, Thursdays, at 1300h Eastern Standard Time, but it's not exactly a wonderful time in New Zealand (7am?). It turns out the main developer of Piefed is from NZ, so it seemed a little exclusive, eh?

I'll be hosting discussions exclusively on @forum-wg from now on.

@julian
> It turns out the main developer of Piefed is from NZ

Ae, @rimu and I met years ago, and see each other from time to time at conferences and such. Although not for a while. Aotearoa is a*very* small country ; )

> I'll be hosting discussions exclusively on @forum-wg from now on

Cool, I'll hook into that with my new PieFed account. I'm new to PieFeb so that will take a bit of faffing about. Feel free to prod me if you don't see start participating within about a week.

@julian @rimu
FYI When I click that @forum-wg Actor in @Mastodon web, it opens the ActivityPub.space forum in a new tab, rather than navigating the app to the profile for that Actor. That's not the behaviour I expected, and I'm not sure it's the ideal UX.

Is that a nodeBB problem or a Mastodon problem or both?

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz I think that was a NodeBB problem, the category wasn't set up to federate (oops!)

Can you try again?

@julian
> Can you try again?

Still doing the same thing in Mastodon web (on mobile this time). Same in @moshidon which is usually pretty good at recognising and opening AP Activities and Actors.

Patchli isn't recognising it as an Actor.

In FediLab it opens a test profile;

@forum

Are you sure the nodeBB WebFinger implementation works properly? Some more recent AP implementations haven't worked the kinks out of this yet. Which is fair enough, as it's a de facto standard, not in the AP spec.

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz I'm able to resolve it on fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@forum-wg@activitypub.space

If the link itself in the post still refuses to work then perhaps that's a different issue...

@julian
> I'm able to resolve it on fosstodon

When I search for the @ forum-wg@activitypub.space Actor, Mastodon web can find it, and follow it. I presume the other apps can too.

> If the link itself in the post still refuses to work

It does, at least when the expected behaviour of clicking on it is navigating to the Actor profile. Also I noticed as I was typing the @name above (before I put a space after the @ to make it render as text), the UI gave me that same test profile as a suggestion.

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz so the issue is resolved? I'm not certain based on your replies