@feditips @dev I just tried to follow and got this from my Mastodon account.

@dev 💕

@feditips @dev That said, sounds great; can’t wait to have a play with it.

@aral @dev

Yeah, I can't wait to follow it when it's working :)

Software written specifically for single user servers is a really interesting approach 👍

@feditips @dev It is ;) And I’m so happy to see more folks creating such things :)

(Also see Owncast.)

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

@abid @dev @feditips Ah, that worked, thanks :)

@aral @abid @dev

Ah yeah, sorry about that, I put their address in original post but for some reason it gets treated as a link to be opened in a new tab rather than a Fediverse address.

Guessing this is something to do with how Mastodon and microblog differ in use of ActivityPub?

Aral, did you get a proper follow or does it say follow request after a few minutes?

@feditips @abid @dev T’was a proper follow from the search :)

Also see: https://mastodon.ar.al/web/@dev@microblog.pub/108789184246122863 :)

@feditips I am not sure what happened, I searched in the logs and I wasn't seeing any follow request from your account (when you first mentioned the issue).

And this is the first time I've seen the issue with the mention being treated as a link by Mastodon, I will try to find the reason.

cc @aral @abid

@dev @aral @abid

It says cancel follow request (attached a screenshot). I've seen this happen before when there's a problem with follows, for example when PeerTube had some follow bugs it would show up as a follow request on Masto and there wouldn't be any trace of it on PeerTube logs.

IIRC PT changed the way they handled federation and it fixed the bug, but I'm not sure if that applies to this situation?

I hope you don't take any of this as criticisms, it's great you're doing the platform! I am saying this hoping it's useful feedback :)

@dev @aral @abid

I wonder if it's something to do with your account being visible from mstdn.social previously on a different software version?

I've successfully followed you from @homegrown which is a very new server.

@dev @aral @abid

And now it works! 🥳

Did you fix something? Whatever it was, it works now :)

@feditips I think you might be right, it may be an issue with re-using the older handle.

I haven't changed anything (except fixing the CSRF issue).

Thanks again for the feedback and for sharing. It is very helpful!

cc @aral @abid

@abid yes in the admin panel. I will put more screenshot in the documentation soon.

@feditips @aral thank you btw!!