Markus Silpala @msilpala@qoto.org

@freemo @RonJeffries @GeePawHill

Update: Ron just told me (via twitter lol) that he did see my @ toots. So maybe it’s only the following that’s borked.

@freemo Do you know of any federation issues between qoto.org and mastodon.social?

I’m trying to follow a couple of my folks who are on that server. They don’t see my follow coming, nor even a follow request.

From my side, it shows that my follow request is Pending.

They also don’t see it when I @ mention them (@RonJeffries and @GeePawHill)

Do these issues sound familiar to you?

I’m sure there’s documentation of all this, and it quite amuses me how much I am NOT feeling an urge to find or read it.

So, I enabled the “advanced web interface” option. I see more stuff at once.

But now I can’t find my list of Follows and Followers.

Feels a bit like my parents looked, while trying to figure out the VCR controls.

@RonJeffries Nope.

Or, maybe? Now it says that I’m following you. But then it said that before. And then it said my follow was Pending.

@RonJeffries I did not have a profile photo when I first tried to follow you.

Now I have one. I’ll cancel my follow request and try again.

@GeePawHill Hey there!

@freemo Good to know. Thank you!

I am following both @users and @freemo but I don’t recall choosing to do so. Are those account the “default follows” for any new #qoto account?

Profile updated—at least with the basics.

I have not written a self-bio in a while. Defs influenced by my daughter’s vocabularic style.

@trinsec Thanks. Now my Home feed is showing properly. Seems to have taken a while to get going.

@cshardie@mstdn.social Oh hey—there they are. Perhaps it just took the feed a while to build and propagate.

Thanks!

@jessitron Seems likely. @jessitron I’m available to pair-troubleshoot over Zoom, if you’d like.

Dang it—already made my first annoying typo in a toot. The prior should be “I remember WHEN twitter.com…”

Hmph.

@cshardie@mstdn.social Hmm. Home feed only seems to show my own toots. Maybe there’s a filter option with a bad default? Will require some troubleshooting, I guess.

@McNasty I haven’t installed yet on my phone. Sporting the mac/web interface so far.

@jessitron Dang! Your post inspired me to attempt it myself—and it worked! Running on Mac via a Unite app (dedicated, app-ified browser based on WebKit, I think).

Nostalgic fun: Mastodon has a Federated view, which appears to be a live-updating stream of _all_ public toots? I remember which twitter.com had that right on the front page—12+ years ago.

Sam and Os, both napping on Aurora. #caturday

Yes, I need to put basic stuff into my profile over here.

I also have to learn the rudiments of this mastodon place. Such as: now that I am following a few people, where do I see the feed of all their posts? This seemed so obvious on that other microblogging platform.