Fediseer

Fediseer & DNS TXT records

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25 Aug 2025 — 1 min read

$An overseer giant orb, surrounded in benevolent chains of trust is observing DNS TXT records, surreal swirling visuals with beautiful fractal illustration$

Fediseer has until now been only able to determine admins of a fediverse instance via the instance API. This worked fine for software like lemmy which display all their admins in the API, but created issues with instances which either obfuscated admin accounts (like mastodon), or which didn't display them at all.

To work around this, I've now developed a method where any instance admins with access to their DNS records can set a TXT record for their domain which list additional people who can get fediseer admin rights. This will be added on-top of the admins discovered via nodeinfo and API calls from the instance software.

To utilize this approach, simply add a DNS TXT record to your instance like so

fediseer-admins=user1,user2,user3,...

The comma-separated values will then be separated into individual users and any instance admin on that list can then claim their instance on the Fediseer.

This update also pushes a few more fixes, such as hiding the guarantee solicitations over than a month old (you can still see them with a switch), and fixing our mastodon proxy integration.

Proxies

We just developed and deployed a new service which by itself caused us to also develop a new feature on the AI Horde! The service itself is a small pilot for an OpenAI-compatible API to the AI Horde, working as a proxy service. The new service can be found on

Deleting Users

One of the early decisions I made when designing the AI Horde is that I didn't want to deal with user accounts and the personal data that comes with them. Not only because I didn't want to be responsible for the safety of that data, but

Haidra now accepts donations through haidra.net.

Since the AI Horde has been a SaaS from day one, along with being something anyone can self-host, being able to cover the server costs was a primary focus to avoid burdening myself too much for a hobby project. So I had repurposed my patreon account to accept donations to

Haidra is now an non-profit registered in Luxembourg!

Background: Haidra has, up until now, been the informal group behind AI-Horde and has been dedicated to providing free and open-source services and software. We are all volunteers ourselves, and we rely entirely on volunteer effort to develop, operate and maintain our services, which we offer free of charge. Incorporation

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Proxies

Deleting Users

Haidra now accepts donations through haidra.net.

Haidra is now an non-profit registered in Luxembourg!