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?
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