@eeeee follows do need to be accepted, although it's configurable. Most software auto accepts, but delays in messaging mean sometimes the requests or responses get lost. Cancel that follow and try again, and it might be accepted. You see the settings cog because you're an admin on your instance.

@fediversereport@mastodon.social 138k is not a lot, especially if @dansup@mastodon.social is planning to pay himself a living wage and hire others, and pay infra costs for multiple services. I wonder what the plan is after the runway ends.

@naturzukunft@mastodon.social signature issues vanished? Does that mean you can send DMs to me now

I forked the topic, it deserves a longer reply and isn't as related to the earlier topic. @reynir@forum.fedi.dk that's a very good question, and having experienced it firsthand, I will share what happened. I started a climbing news aggregator based off of NodeBB at https://news.crag.social, and enabled federation. Later on, the forum rebranded under the OpenBeta umbrella and the domain name changed to community.openbeta.io. This was the best case scenario, a NodeBB to NodeBB move. Every user maintained their accounts, maintained their public keys, and the only thing that changed was their id. I set up a blind 301 redirect to the new site, so every single URL (whose structure was unchanged, remember) went to the new URL. Everybody still lost all their followers. The problem wasn't on my end, it was that remote users are tied to their ID and even though I left a redirect on the old domain to the new one, the support for this in other software is basically zero. There are efforts to look into this, re: Account Portability, but I am unsure of the status of this work.

@julian Are categories supposed to follow regular users from this [image: 1741746454497-ufollow.jpg] screen in admin panel. Asking this because I tried putting a mastodon user profile link in the textbox but upon clicking on 'Follow' nothing happened. For threads, the request is pending(with some error, I guess) as you can see from the picture.

@bh4-tech NodeBB crashes when you navigate to a post from Threads containing a link? Can you share the link here? Will it crash? Let's see

I'll try to look out for a new case and see if it works on my end too. Thanks!

@eeeee it is likely due to audience. So, what happens on your end is you make a topic and mention the Lemmy community. When NodeBB federates that post out, the Lemmy community is included in the mentions, but it also specifies your category 18, World Chat, in audience. If Lemmy sees that, and it doesn't know about that community already, it will drop the activity immediately. If it does, then it will likely slot the post into the "World Chat on isurg.com" community on that Lemmy instance. Lemmy removed audience checking, so this might be a non-issue. Once that Lemmy instance updates to the latest version, it'll hopefully post to the correct community. That's a tricky one, though, because which community should it post to? "Medicine" on mander.xyz, or "World Chat" on isurg.com?