Federated blogging with WriteFreely

Posted Mar 17, 2019 12:32 UTC (Sun) by Yorhel (subscriber, #91403)
Parent article: Federated blogging with WriteFreely

So I'm trying to follow @corbet@kernelpage.com from Mastodon, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. Normally pasting an address into the search field does the trick, but it's not showing any results now. Has anyone succeeded at it yet?

Federated blogging with WriteFreely

Posted Mar 20, 2019 9:37 UTC (Wed) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link] (3 responses)

I suspect there is something else that needs setting up for it. It seems to be a feature of the hosted accounts but I assume there is a knob somewhere you can tweak.

Federated blogging with WriteFreely

Posted Mar 24, 2019 22:06 UTC (Sun) by thebaer (guest, #130968) [Link] (2 responses)

(WriteFreely developer here) It looks like a configuration issue -- the /.well-known/ path isn't accessible to the world. Particularly, Mastodon needs the webfinger route in order to discover the blog -- it's going to hit this URL when looking up the blog: https://kernelpage.com/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acc...

webfinger

Posted Mar 25, 2019 22:49 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

FWIW I believe I have fixed this; I'd be curious to hear if things work for people now.

webfinger

Posted Mar 25, 2019 23:31 UTC (Mon) by thebaer (guest, #130968) [Link]

Yep, just followed 👍 (should show up on your stats page), and I can find your existing posts when searching for their URLs in Mastodon.

By the way, would love to know more about what caused the misconfiguration if you don't mind sharing, either in our fledgling documentation repo or our forum. That would help others potentially fix similar issues in the future.