that's weird. maybe what @[email protected] said about authorized fetch is still the case and it's what's going on here? I wish it was easier to debug federation -- nothing gives me logs. there's a federation debug option in lemmy but there aren't any docs for it, so I'm a bit afraid to turn it on until I see exactly what it does
i'm sure you're delighted at the prospect of standing up your own test mastodon to see what the arsing fuck it's doing. also akkoma and firefish just for good measure.