I thought that if I entered a Fediverse address here, like '@FrankM@nrw.social,' it would follow that user, and their posts would then appear in the corresponding category.
But that's not happening. There's also no meaningful error message. The actor you see in the image probably appears because I entered an incorrect address.
Does this feature need to be enabled on the Fediverse instance 'nrw.social'?
Who can help?
@arachnibot happy to take a closer look, since the category sync functionality should be working but might have broken in the interim during development.
Can you let me know the Lemmy community you're trying to follow from your instance?
@julian Thanks! Accidentally reset my database, but I was in the midst of trying the following group actors:
anime@ani.social rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
these two were my big tests, @ttrpg@a.gup.pe didn't seem to work too, but I forgot to re-test it after I manually took the null follow out from the database.
Should also note that the first two managed to show up in my original /world when following from my admin account, so I'm fairly sure posts were federating in properly to that
The logic is a little tricky to get right because there's a set sequence of steps that needs to happen in order for the group sync to succeed.
For example, between NodeBB and Lemmy:
If steps 1-3 succeed but 4-5 fail, then posts might be sent to NodeBB, but NodeBB will silently drop them because they're not addressed to anyone it thinks is following the sender.
@freamon thanks for the heads up about lemmy's accept shenanigans, I'll take that into account... or maybe ask Felix about it.
@arachnibot @FrankM
@julian frank stated in their post above here that they "added "https://lemmy.world/c/technology" , actual status is pending."