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I thought that if I entered a Fediverse address here, like ‘@FrankM@nrw.social,’ it would follow that user, and their posts would then appear in the corresponding category.

But that’s not happening. There’s also no meaningful error message. The actor you see in the image probably appears because I entered an incorrect address.

Does this feature need to be enabled on the Fediverse instance ‘nrw.social’?

Who can help?

  • arachnibot@community.nodebb.org
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    14 hours ago

    @julian Thanks! Accidentally reset my database, but I was in the midst of trying the following group actors:

    anime@ani.social rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

    these two were my big tests, @ttrpg@a.gup.pe didn’t seem to work too, but I forgot to re-test it after I manually took the null follow out from the database.

    Should also note that the first two managed to show up in my original /world when following from my admin account, so I’m fairly sure posts were federating in properly to that

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      13 hours ago

      The logic is a little tricky to get right because there’s a set sequence of steps that needs to happen in order for the group sync to succeed.

      For example, between NodeBB and Lemmy:

      1. NodeBB admin tries to follow a Lemmy community
      2. NodeBB marks the follow as pending
      3. Lemmy records NodeBB as a follower
      4. Lemmy community tried to send an Accept back
      5. NodeBB marks the follow as established.

      If steps 1-3 succeed but 4-5 fail, then posts might be sent to NodeBB, but NodeBB will silently drop them because they’re not addressed to anyone it thinks is following the sender.

      @freamon thanks for the heads up about lemmy’s accept shenanigans, I’ll take that into account… or maybe ask Felix about it.

      @arachnibot @FrankM