Hopefully easy to answer question. I'm tryna follow an account that's on Mastodon. Is this possible at this point. When I try to search for the account I get an error. Newbie to the fediverse.
@dozerforshort
A couple of things to double check while you try to search for them.
When entering their name in the search box, kbin cares about upper case and lower case so just make sure you enter it either all lowercase or exactly how it’s spelled with upper and lower case.
If the remote instance(server) has enabled something called “Authorized Fetch” then kbin cannot follow the account yet. Kbin support for authorized fetch is on the roadmap but the main developer has been swamped recently.
It is also possible that the remote instance has blocked your kbin instance.
I haven’t tried following an account that requires to approve follow requests so I’m not sure how well kbin supports that.
Kbin might be backed up in the delivery queues and it might take time.
@dozerforshort Maybe you can follow them by going to https://kbin.social/u/@user@instance for example https://kbin.social/u/@thgs@phpc.social. So that you access that user through kbin.social. Not entirely sure where you will see their messages
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