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Unable to tag gotosocial accounts?
Quick summary
Tagging a gotosocial account from Wordpress AP plugin fails.
Steps to reproduce
Screenshot below shows a post that attempted to tag a gotosocial Fediverse account, but that the handle did not parse as a tag, only as plain text.
I asked the account holder about it and they said:
So there's no obvious errors in the gotosocial logs, which is annoying, but I can see that the gotosocial server is returning "401 Unauthorized" status to requests from nham.co.uk to /users/ftmf on our side. It looks like gotosocial, unlike Mastodon, requires those requests to be signed. So it's likely this is something that needs to be addressed in the WordPress ActivityPub plugin, I would think.
Site owner impact
Fewer than 20% of the total website/platform users
Severity
Moderate
What other impact(s) does this issue have?
No response
If a workaround is available, please outline it here.
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I was able to follow a GoToSocial Account from a WordPress blog, so it is definitely no signature issue. I will check the @-mention implementation, because we had another issue report in that direction, maybe it is that.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-with-a-failed-mention-not-federated/
Interesting. It does seem to persist for various self-hosted Mastodon accounts. Whether they all use Gotosocial or not I don't know but here are two more examples since the one from the OP, the most recent being posted yesterday:
@ethicalrevolution can you try to mention them directly on mastodon? is that the same result?
I am able to mention them from my own account, just not from a Wordpress ActivityPub plugin account.