Federation issue

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I’m having trouble using my Write.as-hosted blog with the fediverse. My blog is hosted on Write.as, but I’m using my own domain. I signed up for the Pro plan, and I’m able to access my blog just fine from a web browser at that domain. Federation is enabled in the Updates section of my blog settings. I can’t find it under any combination of the formats specified in the OP, though the one I would most expect to work is the one exactly specified on the blog configure page: @username@my.domain.example, though I would also hope that https://my.domain.example/username would also work (not sure about the Write.as-hosted ones given that I’m using my own domain. I have tried enabling & saving & testing & disabling & saving & enabling & saving & testing to no effect.

I suspect that federation is just… not enabled for my blog despite the box being checked and saved on the blog configure page. This is because https://my.domain.example/api/nodeinfo throws me a Write.as branded 404. The instructions in the OP say to get in touch with my admin so: Hey @matt, could you double check to make sure federation is turned on for me?

My username & the domain I'm using.

My Write.as username is tilde and the domain I’m using is writing.tildelowengrimm.com.

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This one was a bit of a learning curve for me as well. Here’s my setup (also using a custom domain). Hopefully you can reproduce it for yours:

My Write.as site domain:
markwrites.io

My Write.as username:
markwyner

My ActivityPub handle:
@markwyner@write.as (note, it’s not my custom domain)

Example Mastodon URL from my instance:
mas.to/@markwyner@write.as

But you can’t treat your handle like most fediverse instances because of the Write.as DNS is set-up. For example, my Mastodon handle is @markwyner@mas.to. That translates to the following URL:

https://mas.to/@markwyner

However, you can’t convert your Write.as handle the same way. In my case that URL would normally be:

https://write.as/markwyner/

But that’s my Write.as URL.

Based on all of this information, your Write.as handle should be:

@tilde@write.as

I found you there and show that you have 1 follower, even.

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Thanks for the reply! That sounds like a straight up bug since the observed behavior doesn’t match either the OP in this thread or the prominent indication in the Customize page. I’ve filed #1039 on GitHub.

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