Those link-only toots on Mastodon/Federation

[solarbird]

As you may’ve noticed, for the last few posts, people on Mastodon and elsewhere in the Federation only saw links back to here in their Home feeds, rather than the previews and such they had been seeing. (Hi!)

At least the links were to specific articles, and not the blog home page, right?

This started happening when I upgraded to the latest drop of the ActivityPub plugin (0.17), which is alpha software in active development. It turns out this version introduced an unfortunate bug which caused it to federate only raw links to posts, but only when certain specific settings were in place.

As you can see, I’ve found a workaround.

I’ve reported both repro conditions and the workaround to the plugin dev team; I’m sure they’ll figure it out.

Posted via Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected.