@helpers

TL;DR

Is it possible to use FollowBackBot - [email protected] on Friendica instances?

BACKGROUND

hello

i have accounts on two small Friendica instances, this one & also @msdropbear42

being small, they both have, to be blunt, really lousy hashtag-fetching behaviour from the wider fediverse. given i follow a lot of tags [these are as important or maybe even more so, than simply following only personal accounts, for me], this ongoing lousiness poses a real threat for my two accounts having any prospect of being serious daily fediverse "homes" for me, given both instances miss out on a large proportion of posts / tags that i routinely see each day in my Masto & Sharkey accounts.

I have tried using relay.fedi.buzz follows, eg [email protected] on another of my friendica accounts, but tbh it's a PITA coz i cannot simply do it myself, but instead must explicitly request the instance owner to manually add them at the server level via terminal. that kills all spontaneity for me.

recently i became aware of FollowBackBot - [email protected] [read the whole thread if you want all the background; https://friendica.au/display/7c8d90bc-252d65d8d081ff63-cb0df0a1], but in none of my friendica accounts am i able to actually follow it. eg, in this current account, the pic below shows the failure:

can anyone pls help me solve this?

cc: @wansti @frauadmin @MsDropbear42

#Friendica #FriendicaAU #farcebookspace #HashtagFetching #dropbearpooterising
RE: gts.sadauskas.id.au/users/aj/s…

@msdropbear42 @raroun @MelissaBearTrix @MsDropbear42 @msdropbear42 @MsDropbear42 @wansti

well, it transpired that my erstwhile default daily #Friendica fedi, #OpensocialSpace, from which i write/send this post, remains my default daily Friendica fedi, coz:

• after a day or two, it seems to have come good again, with that latest bout of The Wobblies behind it afaict
• my oldest remaining Friendica instance, #AnonsysNet , sadly remains too frustrating to use as my daily, for reasons that originally sent me forth from it, a coupla years ago, in the endless quest for a better Friendica instance [eg, its most topical failing now, as always, is that the custom Channels i created in it (identical to those i create in all other Friendica instances i use), simply do not fetch ANY posts for the configured hashtags, & despite manual searches for those hashtags returning viable hits... grrrrrrrrrrr, tis so annoying!]. its Admin historically rarely/never replies to my posts.
• Mel's private instance #FarcebookSpace, remains great in all aspects except for the fatal flaw of just not federating well enough for most of my saved hashtag searches, either manual or Channels. every time i try to return to this instance as my possible daily, this unsolved hashtag PITA drives me away again. tis a pity!
• after much indecision, t'other day i did in fact press ahead & create a new account on the new Oz Friendica server, #FriendicaAU, full of hope & thrill. alas, subsequently disappointed, eg:
  
  • the server refuses to accept my attempts to change the initial auto-generated password it sent me at registration
  • its hashtag federation seems to be slightly better than FarcebookSpace, much better than AnonsysNet, but much worse than OpensocialSpace, ipso facto, untenable for daily use atm
  • incomprehensibly, afaict, NONE of my attempted Outbound posts from it, actually transmit! they give an appearance of having Sent, but:
    
    • two test-posts i sent to myself at some of my other instances, never arrived
    • a post i sent to one of my Mutuals, who is active & responsive daily with my other instances, remains Unreplied-to [coz i suspect they never received it]
    • a post i sent to the instance Admin, @wansti, remains Unreplied-to [coz i suspect they never received it]

    
    

  
  

oh well. 🤔🤷‍♀️

cc: @shlee

@MelissaBearTrix greetings & salutations oh great & powerful Mel. #TIL that your host vendor has recently upgraded your #Friendica instance to the latest Stable version, ie

🤞 🤞 🤞

#Friendica #farcebookspace