Because #BotsInSpace is shutting down () I'm looking for a new home for my bots.

[jsonarray@utter.online]

@db0 I approved it. Perhaps, email stopped working. I'll look into it. You should be able to login.

[db0@hachyderm.io]

@jsonarray Did you approve the email too?

[edent@mastodon.social]

A few updates to #ActivityBot - the super simple Fediverse Bot Server you can run anywhere.

New features:

Send direct messages to users

Follow, Unfollow, Block, and Unblock other accounts

Bridge to BlueSky with your domain name via Bridgy Fed

Find out more - https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/

[skylar@tilde.zone]

@Edent by any chance did you implement DMs so that you could link a domain name via Bridgy Fed?

[edent@mastodon.social]

@skylar NO! I did it for unrelated secret reasons!!!!

(ʸᵉˢ)

[luca@sironi.tk]

@Edent

nice job! Ever thought of a standard feature like the bot reposting a small group of fediverse account ? For example, pixelfed is not compatible with bridgy fed

[edent@mastodon.social]

@luca I don't really understand what you mean. But I think you should build it.

[edent@mastodon.social]

Can someone who is better at #ActivityPub syntax tell me what I've done wrong?

My bot @colours has a list of all its followers at

https://colours.bots.edent.tel/followers

But they're not being picked up by Mastodon.

The MIME type is correct, the JSON is valid, the pagination works, it responds to signed requests.

What super-obvious thing am I missing here?

[simon@gotosocial.grnwds.uk]

@Edent
If I click on that link in Fedilab and open it in Firefox, it tries to download a file called followers.bin.
@colours @Edent

[edent@mastodon.social]

@simon yes, that's expected. What happens when you try to view the followers of that account in GoToSocial?

[simon@gotosocial.grnwds.uk]

@Edent I use Phanpy as a front end as Gotosocial doesn't have a native one, but that returns a JSON object:
```
{"@context":"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams","id":"https://colours.bots.edent.tel/followers","type":"OrderedCollection","totalItems":997,"first":"https://colours.bots.edent.tel/followers?page=1"}
```

[edent@mastodon.social]

@simon I mean, if you click on the user @colours within your frontend, can you see the list of people who follow it?

I know the JSON is there. I'm trying to debug why the lost isn't showing up in clients.

[julian@fietkau.social]

@Edent Hey, I bookmarked this to check the replies later but I see you still haven't gotten anything that brings clarity. I've checked the JSON output myself twice but I can't find anything wrong with it.

My suggestion would be, if you're motivated enough to throw a little bit of money at the problem, to book a call with @thisismissem for it: https://support.thisismissem.social/#services If she can't find the issue with the output, she'd have the know-how to step through the Mastodon code to find the exact reason.

[thisismissem@hachyderm.io]

@julian @Edent it may be because Mastodon tries to avoid sync'ing the whole collection and has a non-standard (but there is a FEP iirc) way to do this: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#follower-synchronization-mechanism

[edent@mastodon.social]

@thisismissem @julian
Ah! I see, I think.
So I add that header and, when example.social requests my followers, I send back a list of followers from example.social?

Seems a bit backwards, but I get it.

Will have a noodle and see if it works.

Ta!