Adventures in IndieWeb / ActivityPub (AP) bridging:
While in general my posts are being successfully federated by https://fed.brid.gy/ #BridgyFed, most of my recent posts, and two more earlier this year, were delivered successfully to multiple #Mastodon instances AP inboxes (returned 202), however the posts do not show up if you look-up my profile on those instances (and thus followers never saw them).
Update: workaround found: https://tantek.com/2024/247/t4/w3c-link-checker-before-federating
These very recent posts:
* https://tantek.com/2024/247/t2/twenty-years-microformats-shorter
* https://tantek.com/2024/247/t1/twenty-years-microformats-summary
* https://tantek.com/2024/245/t1/read-write-suggest-edit-web
* https://tantek.com/2024/242/t1/indiewebcamp-portland
* https://tantek.com/2024/238/t3/indiewebcamp-auto-linking
and these earlier this year:
* https://tantek.com/2024/173/t1/years-posse-microformats-adoption
* https://tantek.com/2024/044/t1/twenty-years-microformats
were all delivered to over 300 instances, which returned "202" codes, however none of them show up in profile views on those instances, e.g.
* https://indieweb.social/@tantek.com@tantek.com
* https://mastodon.social/@tantek.com@tantek.com
* https://social.coop/@tantek.com@tantek.com
* https://w3c.social/@tantek.com@tantek.com
(My most recent post on all of these is the same 2024-08-25 post starting with “All setup here at IndieWebCamp Portland!”)
Why would a Mastodon instance respond with a 202 to an AP inbox delivery and then not show that post on the local profile view?
GitHub tracking bug in case you can help narrow/track this down or have
* https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/884
Let’s see if this post makes it to your Mastodon (or other #fediverse) reader/client.
Update: ironically this very post itself (with plenty of links, including links to my domain) showed up so I’m quite confused why Mastodon is dropping some posts and not others.
Update 2: it appears all the posts that Mastodon dropped on the floor have @-domain references, e.g. to @-KevinMarks-.-com (without the "-"s). When I changed that @-domain mention to just “Kevin Marks” in https://tantek.com/2024/247/t2/twenty-years-microformats-shorter, it got delivered and shown on Mastodon no problem, with a new slug of https://tantek.com/2024/247/t2/twenty-years-microformats-shorter2.
Something about the ActivityStreams2 that BridgyFed is generating for hyperlinked @-domain mentions is causing Mastodon to choke and fail to show the post to followers and in a local profile.
#indieweb #ActivityPub
This is post 21 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2024/245/t1/read-write-suggest-edit-web
→ https://tantek.com/2024/247/t4/w3c-link-checker-before-federating