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linking Mastodon and Friendica


!Friendica Support
I'm sure this is a frequently asked question but I can't find the answer. How can I link my Mastodon and Friendica accounts? Can I set things up so that my Mastodon posts show up automatically on Friendica?

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in reply to petersuber

@petersuber Certainly. You can follow your mastodon account (and also your firefish account) with your trom.social account
At this point from the "contact settings" you can select the "native reshare" option from the drop-down menu indicated with "Mirror postings from this contact".
in reply to petersuber

I tried to follow my Friendica account from my Mastodon account a few days ago. I can see the follow-request in my Friendica account. But when I try to approve the request, I get an error message, "Service Unavailable. Friendica can't display this page at the moment, please contact the administrator." I've tried several times a day for several days with no change.

Does anyone know what's wrong and how I can approve that follow request? Or more simply, how do I contact the administrator?

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in reply to petersuber

@petersuber Your Friendica profile requires the manual approval of each follower (now I tried to ask for the follow with the "informapirata" account. But the point is that it is you who must follow your mastodon account from Friendica, to allow Friendica to reshare your messages.

In any case, you can try asking @Tio and @FediScience Support

in reply to petersuber

Hi @Tio and @FediScience Support. Can you help me with this problem?

I tried to follow my Friendica account from my Mastodon account a few days ago. I can see the follow-request in my Friendica account. But when I try to approve the request, I get an error message, "Service Unavailable. Friendica can't display this page at the moment, please contact the administrator." I've tried several times a day for several days with no change.

If it helps, I already follow my Mastodon account from my Friendica account.

Does anyone know what's wrong and how I can approve that follow request?

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in reply to petersuber

Thanks. I already do follow my Mastodon account from my Friendica account, but I still get these error messages.

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in reply to petersuber

I get the same error message when I try to approve a friend request on Friendica. But even with the error, I see my friend's posts. I'm beginning to wonder if the error just has to do with notification, not with approval. You are not seeing your Mastodon activity from your Friendica account?

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in reply to Dirk

@dirk I confirm, I noticed a shift 15 h and more when I send a message from my mastodon account to my Friendica account and now my server unreachable
@Dirk

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in reply to tness16

@tness16 @Dirk @petersuber on the one hand it is normal because the messages coming from the other instances are reshared when there is at least one of our connections which is displayed there in its own Timeline. perhaps a server with few users then it can happen that a post ends up in the Timeline with a long delay, even a few hours. In any case, it is always possible to capture a post of any distance by copying the unique link that distinguishes it into the search box of your social network.

Then it is also true that it depends a lot on how a server is configured.

When we opened this Friendica instance, for example, our systems engineer explained to us that it is possible to set the server so that it works faster, committing the resources internally; or it is possible to favor the federation with the other instances. in this way, which is what we have chosen, messages from other servers appear first but unfortunately more resources are needed.

in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂

Thanks for the return. The server Friendica works generally well before the last update which lasts five days (server blocked) when he put back I believe that he lost the federation with Mastodon. Maybe he nead few day. I use my profile mastodon for the moment
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