# Federation follows requiring approval?

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/federation-follows-requiring-approval/3005>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** troubleshooting, writeas\
**Created:** [June 16, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/federation-follows-requiring-approval/3005 "2021-06-16T17:28:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![zstix](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/zstix/32/1148_2.png) [@zstix](https://discuss.write.as/u/zstix)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/federation-follows-requiring-approval/3005/1 "2021-06-16T17:28:40Z")

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I have enabled Federation for my blog: **@zstix@write.as** , but I am running into two issues:

1. I am unable to find the blog when I search for it on Mastodon (both in an app and the web interface).
2. Readers are saying that they can’t follow the blog can can only _request_ to follow. I have no way to see these requests.

Has anyone else run into these issues? I’m fairly new to write.as, but it doesn’t look like there’s any ambiguity in the way I’ve got it configured.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![whytwulf](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/whytwulf/32/1186_2.png) [@whytwulf](https://discuss.write.as/u/whytwulf)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 11:02pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/federation-follows-requiring-approval/3005/2 "2021-07-21T23:02:25Z")

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Same for me.

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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/federation-follows-requiring-approval/3005/3 "2021-07-22T17:32:42Z")

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Hey, sorry for the slow response on this. What Mastodon instances are you both trying to follow from?

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**Author:** ![zstix](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/zstix/32/1148_2.png) [@zstix](https://discuss.write.as/u/zstix)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/federation-follows-requiring-approval/3005/4 "2021-07-22T18:54:41Z")

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Hey @matt 👋

I was trying to follow from [fosstodon.org](http://fosstodon.org)

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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/federation-follows-requiring-approval/3005/5 "2021-07-22T19:17:45Z")

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@zstix Thanks! Could you try searching / following all over again? We accidentally had some instances blocked at the IP-level, and have since unblocked them. So now you should be all set.