MasonHi @mastohost I have a question. On my account on my host @mason I can’t follow some people. Do you know why that might be? They’re not protected and it seems to be really random who it lets me follow and who it doesn’t.
Masto.host@masonasons @mason Can you provide the link to an account that you can't follow?
@mastohost @mason Yeah, I can't follow for example @jakalas
@masonasons Are you just searching for the usernames in the search field?
If so, try searching the full URL, example https: // mastodon.social /@ jakalas (obviously without the spaces).
If not, please let me know where are you trying to hit the follow button?
@mastohost Oh oh I was trying to do it through the API with my own program, using the follow method, but will try this way.
@mastohost Thanks this method worked! :)
@masonasons If a username is new to your server (never previously federated with the server), you need to do a full URL search. After that you can search by the username.
@mastohost Aha, makes sense. Thanks! :)