To know what software an instance is running (Mastodon, Pleroma, Akkoma, Firefish, Friendica, etc), have to make 2 calls:

[cheeaun@mastodon.social]

To know what software an instance is running (Mastodon, Pleroma, Akkoma, Firefish, Friendica, etc), have to make 2 calls:

1. `/.well-known/nodeinfo` - get the `href` for a nodeinfo link e.g. https://mastodon.social/.well-known/nodeinfo
2. `/nodeinfo/2.0` (possibly 1.0 or 2.1 too) - get the `software.name` e.g. https://mastodon.social/nodeinfo/2.0

And… both are not CORS-enabled (again) for web apps to request

Reference: https://github.com/h3poteto/megalodon/blob/90461fa7d5a6349cb31dcd1d3c6ef8641281d29e/megalodon/src/detector.ts

#MastoDev #FediDev

[thisismissem@activitypub.space]

I know Mastodon and Hollo both have CORS enabled on these endpoints: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/config/initializers/cors.rb#L16

[julian@activitypub.space]

Oh that's fun... you replied to a two year old topic because it got recently boosted heh.