FEP-0151: NodeInfo in Fediverse Software (2025 edition)

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This is a discussion thread for the proposed FEP-0151: NodeInfo in Fediverse Software (2025 edition).

It is a revised version of FEP-f1d5: NodeInfo in Fediverse Software, which was published in 2020.

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The FEP has been updated: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/604

The section about capability discovery now says that servers MUST NOT infer capabilities from the software field

In the "Capability detection" section, it is written that "Protocol-specific capability discovery mechanisms could be used instead."

Such mechanism has not been proposed yet for ActivityPub, so I started to write a FEP about it:

https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/844e/fep-844e.md