Testing Joindiaspora and Federation
New On-Post Interactions Not Possible, Reshares Supported
I'm trying to figure out just how dead Joindiaspora is. The pod is now operating in "limited service mode". That means it's only mostly dead, and there seem to be some possible vestigal services operating. How much life remains in old content is ... unclear.
What it does not appear to support is federation of new comments to posts originating on the Pod. And even locally-added content seems to disappear after a brief period.
Test Case: "Data Storage Fabrication: Chancery Papermaking"
My case in is a 2021-8-2 post from my previous Joindiaspora profile: https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/cc9a87c0d62d0139b78f002590d8e506
That was originally posted as https://joindiaspora.com/posts/cc9a87c0d62d0139b78f002590d8e506, which should redirect you to the "limited-service mode" announcement on that pod.
Reshares seem supported
I reshared the post about 20 minutes ago here: https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/5a42dd907f27013a5b46448a5b29e257
That reshare was possible, which is unlike what I've seen for other downed pods, deleted users, or deleted posts.
Archive of the original post
There is an archived versions at:
Archive.Today, should show full contents as of the archive snapshot date. This is a post which was not successfully saved to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine as can be seen.
Testing new comments
A few minutes ago I commented on the Glasswings version of the post, here:
(That's ... meant to be a link to the specific comment.)
What I'd added was a brief note about federation testing, and links to a number of different pods all of which had already federated the post.
What you'll find at those links though, or at least what I'm seeing as I post this, is that the newly-added comment is not shown. Rather, the last-visible comment is the "Archive Tag" note I'd made as I was archiving the post itself.
- https://diasp.org/posts/cc9a87c0d62d0139b78f002590d8e506
- https://diasp.eu/posts/cc9a87c0d62d0139b78f002590d8e506
- https://diasp.de/posts/cc9a87c0d62d0139b78f002590d8e506
- https://diaspora-fr.org/posts/cc9a87c0d62d0139b78f002590d8e506
- https://pluspora.com/posts/cc9a87c0d62d0139b78f002590d8e506
- https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/cc9a87c0d62d0139b78f002590d8e506
Comment disappears!
And checking back now, I find that my newly-added comment has been removed from the post. I happened to have a tab open showing that comment and so grabbed a few screenshots which I'm including in this post. Visiting the Glasswings version of the post now, that comment has now disappeared.
I've tested with a subsequent comment. That appeared to post, but disappeared immediately on reload, similarly to how interactions on content by a profile which has ignored your own behave. Effectively, Joindiaspora seems to have "ignored" the world.
Conclusion: Joindiaspora posts will not support either federated OR local comments or interactions
New interactions on Joindiaspora may appear to initially apply, but will be at best transient. This should appliy to comments and likes.
Reshares however appear to be possible.
How much of this is a general behaviour of defunct pods and how much is specific to the "limited-service mode" of Joindiaspora ... I'm still not certain.
Interesting behaviour.
