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Curious. I want to follow someone from blahaj.zone, but I can't - no results in search. Tried random different accounts from there, nothing. And not just only on my self-hosted instance, also on another one, running Mastodon, not GTS as me. Quick googling didn't reveal any info if they've some strong fediblock measures. In server logs, I see that account URL was returned, which I can open in browser. But Mastodon, nor GoToSocial, don't display the search result, so I can't add the user to follow them.

Any tips, how to debug stuff like this? Or theories what might be happening?

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in reply to Kayla Eilhart (en) ⚛️ FOSDEM 🇧🇪

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Radomír Žemlička

Interesting. From what I've tried, requests to WebFinger successfully return data (e.g., acct:blahaj@blahaj.zone" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blahaj.zone/.well-known/webfin…). The resulting URL (supporting the application/activity+json content-type) is this though: blahaj.zone/users/97ufbg2drc (nothing resembling the account name). So searching for [at]blahaj[at]blahaj.zone doesn't work (even though it should - it's supposed to resolve to the URL from the WebFinger), but if you search that weird URL, it works. 🤷‍♂️
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