Hello,
It is possible to follow a Mobilizon user on Mastodon.
To do this, follow these steps:
+ Search for the event URL in Mastodon
+ Open the event in Mastodon
+ Click on the user to follow them
It would be nice if you could copy the user’s link directly from Mobilizon so you could follow them on Mastodon.
edit:
But it’s not that simple, because a request to follow is sent to the Mobilizon user, yet there’s no option in Mobilizon’s account settings to reply to the request.
Hello,
I noticed that profile who have organized events show in Mastodon, but when clicking on “follow” it doesn’t do anything.
Have you had better success?
Thanks for your feedback.
The Mobilizon user must confirm that they want to be followed, but there is no option to do so in the Mobilizon settings
Since events are alwasy published in a group context in Mobilizon you can acheive what you want by following the group.
But it’s the same with groups—I can join a group on Mastodon, but the group has to accept my follow request first/
@rationali You can publish an event as a user, so it won’t always help to follow the group. See this issue: publish user events (#1662) · Issues · Kaihuri / Mobilizon · GitLab
@perry It may be because the Mastodon server use secure mode: Add an Instance Actor to allow for federation with Mastodon in secure mode (#1426) · Issues · Kaihuri / Mobilizon · GitLab
If I understand correctly, there was already a solution, but it hasn’t been merged into the codebase yet?
It would certainly be very convenient if you could follow a Mobilizon user on Mastodon. I use Mastodon, among other things, to follow users from other Fediverse platforms like PeerTube, Pixelfeed… basically in a similar way to RSS.
Right! I made a local patch on mobilisons.ch to make that work. But I’ve only ever attempted to follow a group:
@rationali which patch? Could you share more about it?
@perry you can follow Mobilizon groups from Mastodon, by default, this doesn’t require any approval and that’s the wished behavior, since only public information is shared.
I think I submitted a merge request, but I don’t recall. I’ll check the issue.
It seems I marked it as a draft, and then it got lost in the project-ownership shuffle.
So, I created a group and tried to follow it on swiss.social, but following the group has to be confirmed; maybe it also depends on the Mastodon instance.
I need to do some more testing, and then try to produce a proper patch.
Do not hesitate to reach out when you get into it, it’s always better to collaborate upstream with dev team when possible.
I will do. The thing is that I think it might be better to leave it broken until we have a caching solution for the stampede problem following Mastodon boosts or shares. I’m going to take some time this week to experiement with using Nginx to cache the resource that gets flooded, and hopefully nothing else.
The last time I tried it I didn’t have a workable test rig, but now I do.
