Still can't follow from Mastodon about bookwyrm HOT 10 OPEN

I do not have other Mastodon or Bookwyrm account to try with. Thanks for checking for me, I do see your follow as normal, so presumably this is something about .ART's config causing problems.

My Bookwyrm instance is not blocked or limited by .ART, and the account is not suspended there, it shows up normally. The authorized fetch thing is the only thing I can think of, and it's .ART's admin's theory as well: https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/111891429205948907
Another user in that same thread, who is on a different Mastodon instance, mentioned having this issue and that following from Bookwyrm first helped. I tried to test this, but looking up my Mastodon account on Bookwyrm pops up a "server error" message consistently (looking up accounts on other instances seems fine). Perhaps the Bookwyrm instance is trying to fetch data from .ART when I look up my account, and failing.

I will attempt to contact my Bookwyrm instance admin about this.

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I have "manually approve followers" turned OFF, so the fact that even on BookWyrm you're still seeing it as a follow request is definitely strange. It's just a regular follow on my end.

I see no follow or follow request from your Mastodon account on netsphere.one, so I guess that answers your initial request :D

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As this affects my instance I definitely want to get this figured out. I'm going to spin up a test Mastodon instance with authorized fetch on so I can troubleshoot on both ends, hopefully that'll shed some light on this.

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Did you try the same from another instance?

Mastodon.art is somewhat famous for their defederation with almost everything, so it's not impossible that there's no federation with your bookwyrm instance or your account could be suspended there.

I've tried to follow your account from mine on lor.sh. No problems there.

Also it could be useful to get in contact with your Bookwyrm instance admin and ask them for logs if you know the precise time when you tried to follow. If there was something strange like errors they can see that. This data could be very useful if it's really a Bookwyrm problem.

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@eishiya I sent you a request from each of your BookWyrm and Mastodon accounts.

Now, if you could take a screenshot showing only one of the requests, it would be easier for others to understand.

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I don't understand what you mean by "sent you as request from each of your BookWyrm and Mastodon accounts"? Do you mean you followed from your BookWyrm and Mastodon accounts? Because I do see two new follows (not follow requests), are these you?

One of these is from Mastodon, one appears to be your BookWyrm. The Mastodon one is from mastodon.social, which has been shown to work fine with BookWyrm in the past, and does not use authorized_fetch.

The fact they show up as follow requests for you even though they went through as normal is itself an issue though, I think. Probably a separate one from mine, though.

The Mastodon account does not appear on my Followers list, but I don't know whether that's due to a bug or if the account unfollowed:

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Accounts that followed you.

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Both accounts are marked as awaiting your approval.

"Manually approve followers" feature of BookWyrm doesn't seem to be working properly. I don't use this feature, so someone else should probably take a look at it.

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These "Follow requests" when follow approval is not required on the receiving side are reminding me about Mastodon->Pixelfed follow problem which one of our instance users experiences.

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This is extremely likely to be related to "authorized fetch"/"secure mode". Would love to know what you find, @msub2 as we keep thinking we've fixed this and then it pops up again.

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I am having this problem (running my own bookwyrm and mastodon server on public urls).

But also (could be related) bookwyrm -> mastodon DMs work but mastodon -> bookwyrm DMs do not.

Bookwyrm is installed dockerlessly.

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