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I note that mymath.rocks does not provide this information.

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I'm a big believer in "Do as I say, not as I did".

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I could give a long list of technical reasons, which boil down to: nodeinfo is pretty nonsensical with the way I write stuff.

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I think the above statement also addresses a main failure of the Fediverse. People, e.g. me, would love to fix stuff. Unfortunately, we lack the focus to address a lot of issues, e.g. nodeinfo sucks. So stuff gets done in a broken way.

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I think the main challenge the Fediverse has faced, and failed at, is avoiding the above situation. To continue the example, there is no way for somebody to say: Let's fix nodeinfo and people will follow their ideas.

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