Following accounts across platforms in the fediverse

Across platform account following in the fediverse!

Hi all, just wanted to type this out to someone in case it helps. I am a noob and don’t really know what I’m doing but I set up an account on Mastodon, Pixelfed, Beehaw, and Kbin, then tried finding and following each account with the other.

Pixelfed and Mastodon work great together, they can follow eachother and comment both directions (though I got flagged for suspicious acitivity on pixelfed which makes sense cause my name is the same on each).

Beehaw I can be followed by Mastodon and Pixelfed, but I can’t find a follow button in Beehaw to follow back. I can however reply to comments from outside Beehaw.

Kbin I can search for and follow all the other accounts, but I cannot find the Kbin account when searching on the other sites to follow back.

So I don’t know if that’s confusing or not. Beehaw I can be followed but not follow back, Kbin I can not be followed but I can follow others, and Mastodon and Pixelfed can be followed (but not by Beehaw) and follow back (but not for Kbin).

Sorry I should have made some kind of infographic.

Also I posted this initially as a post and could not find it using Mastodon, Beehaw, nor Pixelfed. I'mnow posting it as an article to see if that works instead!

WorriedGnome,
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@Joeyfingis please be mindful that federation from this kbin instance to other platforms might be restricted at the moment as ernest (creator of kbin) works on stabilising the instance due to high user migration from Reddit. Once things stabilise, federation should work better and you should be able to see your account in other platforms

Joeyfingis,

Gotcha! Thank makes a lot of sense. I'll wait and check in like a week and see if anything has changed.

princessofcute,
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Yeah federation is currently disabled on .social but Ernest is working on it, he usually posts updates in the Kbinmeta magazine

Joeyfingis,

Update, I still can't find this post using any other platform, though on beehaw I can see posts in @kbinMeta but they are all at least a day old. Maybe this one will eventually show up. I'll report back!

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