How to surface what is federated and what is blocked?
How to surface what is federated and what is blocked?
Is there any way to see what instances we on fedia.io are federated with, and what instances we've blocked?
By far the biggest issue at the moment is that fedia.io isn't federated with kbin.social, which is by far the biggest kbin instance. That issue is on their side, but the guy who runs it posted an update today indicating a solution is on its way:
Good morning! :) Today I want to focus mainly on reviewing the pull requests you've submitted. There are many great things there that will help improve the kbin experience. That's amazing, thank you! I'm also in the final stages of sorting out the infrastructure-related formalities. Soon, the situation with the website's functionality should stabilize, and the traffic from the fediverse will gradually be restored. I've decided to delegate some tasks as I can no longer oversee everything at this stage. There are many offers of help for which I'm very grateful, and I haven't had a chance to respond to some of them yet because I only just saw them - a lot is happening, really.
The key question for me is what do 'soon' and 'gradually' mean here. If it's all sorted within the next couple of days, I'll ride it out here. If it's longer, given the enormous growth they've seen over there and the content we here are therefore missing out on, I may start using kbin.social as my primary unless/until I've got confidence that fedia.io is sustainably integrated with the rest of kbin (and to be honest there'll be some path dependency there - if I start using kbin.social as my primary then there's a good chance I'll not get around to coming back...)
I posted this in the microblog but maybe this is a better place to ask. I'm trying to follow a botsin.space account and it's not working, also that account can't follow a magazine (just goes to "follow requested"), so I think it's blocked?
It seems that there are federation issues between fedia.io and other instance types. My mastodon account is claiming that it is waiting on my request to follow my account here to be approved. There doesn't appear to be any way to do that approval on fedia.io. Hopefully it's on @jerry TODO list to investigate (along with the problem with media URLs missing "/media). My mastodon instance (ohai.social) doesn't actively block fedia.io and it knows about it so I guess the problem is on this end. I've posted here using hashtags that my other accounts should see but nothing appears.
When I try to search for a bot on mastodon.social that I operate fedia.io doesn't find it at all but it can find non bot accounts on mastodon.social so maybe a bot account is being "blocked".
You are a genius! If I untick "this is a bot account" then everything works as it should. @jerry is this something which can be fixed?