I'm the author of an April Fool's Internet Standard, AMA - Lemmy.world
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Let’s get the AMAs kicked off on Lemmy, shall we. Almost ten years ago now, I wrote RFC 7168 [https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7168], “Hypertext Coffeepot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances” which extends HTCPCP [https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324] to handle tea brewing. Both Coffeepot Control Protocol and the tea-brewing extension are joke Internet Standards, and were released on Apr 1st (1998 and 2014). You may be familiar with HTTP error 418, “I’m a teapot”; this comes from the 1998 standard. I’m giving a talk on the history of HTTP and HTCPCP at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin later this month, and I need an FAQ section; AMA about the Internet and HTTP. Let’s try this out!
  • ruffslOPEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    The first link you listed (viewing the remote community from our local instance) shows 0 subscribers from the sidebar. From my understanding, no one from our instance is then subscribed to that remote community, so our instance has no reason to index those posts. Although I could be wrong, and it could be that no one from our local instance is subscribed to any community on the remote instance. I’m unsure if only instance federation or community subscription is necessary for merrioring/indexing remote posts.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 years ago

      I see, thanks. That’s a test instance and therefore there may be other restrictions related to federation for that particular example.