@Coffee @liaizon @darius @dansup @sexybiggetje@mastodon.social Fedilab is referencing software.name in nodeinfo and has encountered an issue where it is no longer recognized as Mastodon. We haven't seen any other clients that have the same problem yet. However, apps that support or will support multiple server types may experience this issue in the future.
@darius @Coffee @liaizon @dansup @sexybiggetje@mastodon.social Fedilab checks with an exact match and does not seem to accept anything other than "mastodon".
https://framagit.org/tom79/fedilab/-/blob/develop/app/src/main/java/app/fedilab/android/activities/LoginActivity.java#L264
@noellabo @Coffee @liaizon @dansup @sexybiggetje guess I'll make a PR...
@darius @Coffee @liaizon @dansup @sexybiggetje@mastodon.social In Fedibird, I decided to change the software.name of NodeInfo back to mastodon and instead add forks to metadata and write it there.
This forks will be added to the array when Fedibird is further forked. It's a good idea for the client to trace to a name they already know to determine the type, and to recognize the software's unique name by the last name.
When collecting statistics, it can be used as a category hierarchy.
@noellabo @darius @Coffee @dansup @sexybiggetje this might be a good thing to make a post about in SocialHub so we can have a bit of standardization on procedure for this. Seems like a thing that would be much more useful if everyone was doing it the same way.
@noellabo @Coffee @liaizon @dansup @sexybiggetje this is why I chose "mastodon+hometown" so software could still find the substring and understand it's compatible