Hi, @foxyloxy. I haven’t had time to inspect my logs and try to find the reason I cannot follow from my own Mastodon instance. But I tried to do it now, and simply, I was able to follow my blog!
If I check the list of profiles I am following, now I can see my blog:
before I wasn’t and the status always returned to a pending request.
On the admin panel of Mastodon, it’s possible to check federation requests for a particular domain (Preferences → Moderation → Federation → enter your own domain), and it was always failing. Now I checked it and there is no failure:
I have made just one single change to my Nginx configuration by adding proxy_ssl_verify off; inside location /. I did this based on this Apache directive someone posted here.
Furthermore, I think I will need to delete my actual blog and start fresh. I started my instance with multiple blogs for testing purposes. I’ve changed WriteFreely settings to a single blog, but now it has two blogs. And if I send a post draft to the wrong blog, I just lose this blog post.
I am still not sure if I will use WriteFreely or try to set up a static blog solution using ActivityPub. I really liked WriteFreely, but maybe I want a solution where people can add comments (preferably with a profile on the Fediverse ; ).
P. S. I made a toot asking people to test if they can follow my blog. One person confirmed. Now I see there are 5 people following my (prototype) blog, but I cannot see on trivial ways who they are.