FOSSDLE PieFedCan't follow my own Pixelfed account on Mastodon
submitted by 5teverin0
I am trying to follow my own Pixelfed account on Mastodon, but even though I search for, find, and follow my Pixelfed account, none of my Pixelfed posts appear in my Mastodon timeline. I am unsure if the problem lies with Pixelfed, Mastodon or both. Anyone else have a similar experience? I am @5teverin0@mastodon.social, and @5teverin0@pxlmo.com. Thanks.
I can follow and see content from both accounts via the Ice Cubes app.
EDIT: I just realized you can’t see the posts in your timeline. I can only see as far as 2 days ago via my app, so unless you’re able to post an image more recent I can’t help out. Sorry!
Going to mastodon.social and searching for 5teverin0@pxlmo.com in the search field, I see posts going back to August 21 just fine from there. So it's not clear to me what is not working?
Federation of post is not retroactive - if you search up yourself from another instance you should find your profile, but you might not see your old posts. If you follow yourself, all future posts will be federated.
The syncing of different mastodon instances is horrendous. I had to leave mastodon for bluesky because of this.
Though I still have a pixelfed account.
I can see it from the three medium/small instances I just tried.
Also, is typigraphy a typo (typi?) or its own thing?
I follow my own Pixelfed account on Mastodon and will often boost posts. I have a pixelfed.social account though. It's probably a federation issue on your specific Pixelfed instance. I've moved the Mastodon account a bunch and I've had problems on specific instances. I was never able to see my Pixelfed posts from fedia.social (ice shrimp), for example.
I was also able to search, follow, and see your Pixelfed posts from mastodon.social.
Edit: Your two newest photos from Aug 31st aren't actually showing up on m.s. and I can't see them on pixelfed.social either.
........why did you say "ice shrimp"?
Seemed like a cool thing to say in the moment. No good?
I said it was my Mastodon account but that server was running Firefish then a fork of Firefish called iceshrimp, neither of which are Mastodon. But it's now a Mastodon account again.
https://iceshrimp.dev/
OK, I think I have this straightened out. The situation was that only my first couple of PixelFed posts showed up in my Mastodon timeline, anything more recent did not. Somewhere along the way, I unfollowed and refollowed my Pixelfed account, to no effect. Today, I went into my Mastodon settings and saw that my Pixelfed follow was "Pending". I canceled it and followed my Pixelfed account again, and all is well.