Cannot follow @[email protected] from my Mastodon account @[email protected]

[jordanekay]

When I try to follow the account, the follow request is never accepted, and the account never follows me back. Is it because I am on one of the smaller instances and am not making it past the spam filter?

[Tamschi]

It's because your handle starts with an underscore. Bridgy Fed normally replaces those with a dash, but that's not valid at the start, end or adjacent to a . in ATProto handles. More info here: https://fed.brid.gy/docs#troubleshooting

As the documentation says, this may be improved in the future. (#1005)

[jordanekay]

I am seeing the same behavior when trying to follow from a different account of mine, @[email protected]. Perhaps it’s the server itself that is being rejected?

[snarfed]

https://c.im/about doesn't show that c.im is blocking or limiting Bridgy Fed. Have you looked at everything else in https://fed.brid.gy/docs#troubleshooting ?

[jordanekay]

Ah, looks like the account is too recent. Thank you!

[Tamschi]

See also #758 for how we'll hopefully avoid confusion in that regard in the future.