@khird ehat are you specifying as your home server?
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@freemo I can’t get the markdown to work. There’s supposed to be a line break after the close paren and the close angle bracket
@khird one second going to restart matrix wont fix your problem directly but it is inspired by it.
@khird ok i reset matrix.. anyway yea if you specify the home server as “matrix.qoto.org” it should work… it is trying to ping the mastodon instance. It works on element because i have that set as the default.
@freemo Ahh okay I see. It’s a problem with Syphon.
When I signed up, I used matrix.qoto.org. But then it gave my fully qualified username as khird:qoto.org. Syphon (probably incorrectly) proceeded to send future requests to qoto.org instead. I logged out and back in as khird:matrix.qoto.org and it seems to be working.
@khird That is very strange considering that having a home server url that differs from the federation ID is quite common… my guess is that it specifically is broken when honoring the federation url redirect that is defined through DNS, despite being part of the matrix spec. Absolutely a bug on their part then and likely should be reported.
Strictly speaking your ID is @khird:qoto.org and your home server is matrix.qoto.org (which the system tells clients is serving qoto.org matrix endpoints).
@freemo Yep I’m going to bring it to their attention this week. It’s still in development so probably just something they don’t yet have a test case for.
@khird It is easily overlooked as the documentation only mentions the DNS method briefly with a link to the spec. Most servers use the .well-known approach to publishing the link.
@khird FTI I think a line brake in markdown requires two sequential line brakes in the raw MD itself.
@freemo Thanks, I’ll try to remember that.
@khird ok, yea that might be due to you specifying the wrong homeserver
@khird Most likely you specified qoto.org as the home server rather than matrix.qoto.org.
I am going to try changing that setting ont he element I host so it is less confusing.
@khird can i see the specific errors?