3 posts were split to a new topic: Federation issue
I donโt think this is working for me as expected. Hereโs how the process is going:
- enable federation in settings for blog (Log in โ Write.as)
- find on Mastodon by searching @shavian-text@write.as โ profile appears empty, but this is expected due to long-standing issue with Mastodon itself. # of posts corresponds correctly with write.as blog
- follow @shavian-text@write.as on Mastodon, from my account @zoy@merveilles.town
- publish a new blog post โ # of posts field on @shavian-text@write.as profile increases by 1, but new post is still not showing either on profile or in timeline, even when logged in as @zoy@merveilles.town
- find post on Mastodon by searching its URL (๐๐ฎ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ ๐ข๐ท ๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ป๐ค๐๐, ยท๐ฃ ๐ก ๐ข๐ง๐ค๐, 1898 โ ๐๐ฑ๐๐พ๐ฏ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ (Shavian text)) โ no search results in Tusky or Moshidon
What am I missing? As I understand it, step 5) here should always yield a search result on Mastodon, as long as federation was enabled before publishing the post.
Free account user here. I enabled federation, but trying to use it from, say, mastodon.social is throwing a 404:
https://mastodon.social/@trigonella@write.as
Update: issue resolved in mattโs comment below. Thanks!
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How are you publishing your posts, @zoyander? E.g. through the editor, or by importing posts? There is a known issue where imported posts wonโt go out to the fediverse right now.
I believe you have to search for accounts to have them pulled into Mastodon initially (this is just the way it works on their end). I searched for your blog on mastodon.social (using its Write.as URL) and now that link seems to work!
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Iโm publishing through the editor (honestly not automatically publishing imports seems intuitive to me, to avoid bulk posts on Mastodon)
Just published another post yesterday, through the editor - the posts # on the mastodon account is still 2, and still no posts are displayed.
Hmm, are you able to find other accounts like @blog@write.as? Otherwise, are you able to see the blocklist on merveilles.town (or ask your admin), and confirm that they donโt defederate from write.as? Iโm able to see your post fine on our writing.exchange instance, so Iโm wondering if somethingโs going on with the particular Mastodon instance youโre on.
Iโve tried from my Merveilles.town account and my assemblag.es account, and neither can see any posts on my write.as profile but they can see posts on other write.as profiles (even those that I donโt follow). Both have eventually updated the # of posts to the current correct number, but no posts are shown before or after following.
Did you try looking up your Write.as blog from these instances while still changing settings on the blog, e.g. URL, username, etc.? Also, are you able to find and follow the blog when you search for the blog URL instead of the fediverse handle?
I just noticed that markdown headings formatted like so:
### this is a heading
get converted correctly to html, but also the first word in the heading shows up in mastodon as a tag like so:
#this
even though there was a space between # and t in the markdown. Is this intended? It feels a bit weird if so.