Oh neat, I’d never thought of that before. Woulda been handy back last time I was working on a PWA!

200 OK (from service worker)

So yeah, getting it from the cache.

If you’re on linux

I’m not, but I do have WSL installed. It returned “Can’t find pathfinder.social: No answer”

Out of interest, I tried the same command in Microsoft PowerShell, I get:

Server:  dns9.quad9.net
Address:  9.9.9.9

Name:    pathfinder.social

That’s the full output. No actual list of returned addresses.

I’m guessing my system just has pathfinder.social cached.

I’m actually not really clear on what the status of that instance is. Like, for me, when I browse to https://pathfinder.social, I actually see what looks like an empty Lemmy instance running 0.18.2. Some communities show the same for me, while others show a generic error message. So I don’t know whether it’s running in some failed state due to caching, or deregistered, or what.

Yes, that’s the full domain. It used to host communities such as !pf2general@pathfinder.social. Unfortunately it’s been dead for 9–10 months now.

Out of interest, is pathfinder.social among those snatched up by these?

I didn’t know this problem existed, but now I’m incensed by it.

Or use multiple accounts on different instances that represent your different interests. Like maybe you have a “news & shitposting” account, and another “programming and piracy” one, etc. And ensure each account is on an instance that supports the necessary federations to support that.

Just go to {{instanceurl}}/instances. Scroll to the bottom for the defederated instances.