anyone managed to get #gath.io fediverse integration to actually work?

i cant actually follow events, as it gets stuck on requesting a follow, that supposedly needs to be approved. this happens regardless of the option settings ('Users can mark themselves as attending this event'), ive tried it with both this option selected and deselected

was a really cool demo on
#fediforum that i wanted to showcase, but sucks it i cant get it to work right now
@laurenshof Is this something that's merged into the mainline branch, or is there a special branch that has all the ActivityPub stuff in it?
@deadsuperhero its in the main branch, as you can actually find the events via fediverse if you make the event on gath.io

its only the following part that doesnt seem to work
@laurenshof @deadsuperhero When I tried it a few months ago there was an issue with mastodon.social but other people were able to use it. So maybe there is also an issue with firefish or your particular instance. You should let Darius know.
@misc @laurenshof @deadsuperhero I'm still trying to debug this - for whatever reason friend.camp can talk to it just fine but other servers are having problems