Pixelfed Not Federating

[doodlemania2]

@will ... I've got Mastodon and Riot up and running with Pixelfed, no issues. Feel free to search for me @doodlemania@pixels.thedoodleproject.net ... when you do the search, watch your logs and it should show up after a few tries.

[scooke]

@doodlemania2 said in Pixelfed Not Federating:

@doodlemania@pixels.thedoodleproject.net

Just followed you. But something seems off. I could search for you as a user, but when I am in Pixelfed and can see those Following me, I can't follow them back from within Pixelfed Followers view. When I click on a Follower it brings me to their instance, but I can't Follow them back. In fact, I'm urged to make an account on their instance! Weird.

[girish]

@will AFAIK, the mastodon/riot settings have no overlap with pixelfed. Not sure what might be going wrong.

[doodlemania2]

@scooke I'm not 100% certain, but this might be the way Pixelfed currently works. I've seen this experience myself and it is a bit sub-optimal, but doesn't appear related to cloudron or the federation but rather, the app itself. Will continue to monitor!

[will]

@doodlemania2 I was able to see you in mastadon and pixelfed! Anyone have a peertube instance I can test? Also, how can I test Element chat federation?

Thanks guys!

[doodlemania2]

That's great @will ! I think we'll have GNU-Social too fairly soon as it's marked #wip

[rmdes]

@will yes I'm testing one here : tube.okcinfo.news

[rmdes]

@scooke can't you remote follow them from your instance ?
I agree with the other comment, you can't use Pixelfed as a full blown actor in the fediverse, you can follow other users in your pixelfed instance but any user outside of your instance is a remote follower you can follow from your mastodon account but not from pixelfed.
on the other end, anyone using an activitypub enabled system can follow a pixelfed user.

[rmdes]

@will I have the same issue.
There is not a single error in my horizon dashboard, it's active & green, following your own pixelfed user from your mastodon instance work just fine but if you search a profile from another PIXELFED instance anywhere in the fediverse there is no search results

https://pixelfed.social/admin

If you look to your own mastodon or any other identity there is no issue :

it can't neither see a peertube profile.

[rmdes]

regarding no errors in Horizon :

There does not seem to be any jobs running, maybe that's why ?

no jobs no failed jobs ?

earlier today I published a photo from my mobile and it went just fine :

https://pixel.rmendes.net/p/rmdes/194086913265766400

My experience is that the app is smooth and fast both on desktop and mobile
I have no idea what's going on but when I search admin@pixelfed.social
in the logs trail you can catch this :

Jul 29 17:54:25 172.18.0.1 - - [29/Jul/2020:15:54:25 +0000] "GET /api/search?q=admin@pixelfed.social&src=metro&v=1&scope=profile HTTP/1.1" 200 992 "https://pixel.rmendes.net/i/results?q=admin%40pixelfed.social" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0"
Jul 29 17:54:25 172.18.0.1 - - [29/Jul/2020:15:54:25 +0000] "GET /api/pixelfed/v1/accounts/verify_credentials HTTP/1.1" 200 1555 "https://pixel.rmendes.net/i/results?q=admin%40pixelfed.social" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0"

this "verify_credentials" might be where the problem is ?

[will]

@rmdes I followed somebody outside my instance.

[doodlemania2]

I wonder if this is a Pixelfed issue, not a Cloudron issue? It seems some types of follows work, others not so much. Thoughts?

[rmdes]

@will Do you mean another pixelfed user or another user from another activitypub enabled service (mastodon, pleroma etc..)

[will]

@rmdes I can't see other users on PixelFed, like browsing their pages.