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OK Fedifriends, I need your help with some complex ActivityPub stuff.

Mastodon won't show a list of followers for @colours

It has an orderedcollection at colours.bots.edent.tel/followe… which paginates properly.

The mimetype and JSON are all correct, I think.

You can check out the source code at gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/

What magical incantation do I need to do to help Mastodon see the details of the account's followers?

Feel free to reply here or on the repo.

#ActivityPub #MastodonAPI #JSON

in reply to Terence Eden

i might be wrong but i think mastodon doesn't try to read this list. from my experience, it doesn't seem interested in the follower list (or even count) from remote servers.
in reply to david turgeon

I'm on mastodon .social and I can see a list of your followers.
in reply to Terence Eden

Mastodon only displays the followers local to the instance you are looking at
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in reply to Terence Eden

It says the user chose not to make that information available. In ActivityPub terms it means, the followers collection has a `totalItems` property but no `first` property.

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