Major bugfix: This should be the first post everyone actually sees in ages!

If you can see this from any Federation instance (Mastodon, Misskey, Firefish, Akkoma, etc), please take a moment to hit the reply button! I want to see if posts are getting out properly again. I can’t see likes from this side (yet), so those won’t work, sorry – they actually have to be replies.

Basically, the good people at ActivityPub for WordPress dropped a bug fix today for a problem a lot of people have been working for a while. It prevented most followers from actually seeing new posts. Some people would see them, some people would see them for a little while then stop seeing any new updates at all.

It’s even hit me directly – I’ve regularly stopped seeing my own blog posts federate to my own Mastodon instance, as in the one I literally run.

So if you’ve followed me here and wondered why no posts solarbirb? There have been posts. There have been a lot of posts. They just haven’t been going out to most people. But this should fix it.

(The issue has been that no more than 10 instances could have actual working follows at a time. Which ten those were changed at … something akin to random. This was not some sort of attempt at crowd control, it was an API issue that’s now been fixed with a drop this morning. So mastodon.social users were very likely to see updates and I think have been working the whole time. Most other followers… eh? It was pretty random.)

So if you can see this, hit reply to let me know. Or, you know:

lol

Thank you! 😀

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