@pfefferle According to BrowserPub my blog has a few posts in the outbox that haven't made it to @colin - Anything I can do?

Colin Devroe

https://cdevroe.com/@colin · BrowserPub · A browser for exploring ActivityPub and the fediverse

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Matthias Pfefferle

@cdevroe @colin what do you mean by "a few"?

mastodon does not support importing of old posts and the plugin does not send posts that where posted before the first person followed your blog.

Colin Devroe

@pfefferle @colin The last few posts never made it to Mastodon. And I'm not sure why. I'm just not sure how to debug the setup to make sure everything is correct.

Matthias Pfefferle

@cdevroe your posts are published under @[email protected] !

https://cdevroe.com/2024/10/03/thoughts-on-automattic-vs-wp-engine/ · BrowserPub · A browser for exploring ActivityPub and the fediverse

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Matthias Pfefferle

@cdevroe @colin maybe you have to re-check your ActivityPub settings, if author and blog profiles are enabled!?!

Colin Devroe

@pfefferle @[email protected] Shouldn't it publish to both? Or did I mess it up! (And, it only did one of them).

Matthias Pfefferle

@cdevroe @[email protected] it should post as the author and the blog should boost it, if both is enabled.

Colin Devroe

@pfefferle @[email protected] I see. My goal is to have @colin be MY account. But, if I turn my author profile off it doesn't post as me. So I have to keep both on. But I don't want @[email protected] to exist.

By the way, if I'm asking these questions in the wrong spot, please let me know. I don't want to bother you.

Matthias Pfefferle

@cdevroe @[email protected] @colin if you deactivate the author and only have the blog-author enabled, the plugin should post from this account then!

Colin Devroe

@pfefferle @[email protected] @colin

I can confirm that if I have the blog profile on, but ActivityPub off for a specific user, the blog profile does not post.

Should I file this as a bug? I'm not sure that it is a bug though. I don't know what people's expectation would be in this circumstance. My guess is that they would expect it to work the way it is working now.

Matthias Pfefferle

@cdevroe @[email protected] @colin then you should file a bug!

Colin Devroe

@pfefferle @[email protected] @colin

No urgency here. I suppose I can enable ActivityPub for my author profile for now. Perhaps in the future there can be a way to pull this off.

Oh, while I have you, do know if there is a way to retroactively _delete_ a profile on ActivityPub? I realize each instance would need to know. But say I wanted to delete @[email protected] ?

Matthias Pfefferle

@cdevroe @[email protected] @colin Ahhh! now I understand your problem! this is in case a special case that is not supported yet!

thanks for filing the issue, I will think about how to properly fall back to the blog author in this case!

Colin Devroe

@pfefferle many thanks!