Does not allow following & posts not appearing in Mastodon

[remouk]

Quick summary

I installed ActivityPub on my blog which is hosted on Wordpress.com (business) : https://danstonchat.com/
I chose blogwide account (no author pages/ActivityPub accounts).

When searching for the account (@[email protected]), it appears. It's missing the logo but the other informations are there.

When someone tries to follow it , it doesn't work. The requests to follow are sent but not "allowed".

I tried with my own account on the https://piaille.fr/ instance. It doesn't work.

In the "followers" page (in WordPress admin), the list is empty.

When I post, nothing appears on Mastodon. Weird thing: someone did share a link to one of the post, and now it appears on the account page.

Steps to reproduce

• Go to you Mastodon (any ActivityPub?) instance
• Search for @[email protected]
• Try to follow it

What you expected to happen

• You should be allowed to follow
• Posts should appear on your timeline

What actually happened

• Nothing

Impact

All

Available workarounds?

No and the platform is unusable

Logs or notes

No response

[pfefferle]

Hey @remouk 👋

where do you host your site? Maybe it is an issue with mod_rewrite?

https://blog.rac.me.uk/2022/11/10/activitypub-for-wordpress-how-to-fix-modsecurity-to-make-it-work/

[remouk]

Hi @pfefferle ! :) I'm hosting on Wordpress.com (Business plan)

[pfefferle]

Hmmm! Ok, it should work there!!! Let me have a look!

[pfefferle]

@remouk do you use a security/firewall plugin?

[remouk]

Nope!
Pretty standard stuff (jetpack/akismet...) and a few custom plugins to add favorites, reactions on posts and to colour the quotes (html formatting).

[remouk]

@pfefferle May I provide you anything useful? I'm stuck 😅 Thank you so much

[pfefferle]

May I ask what version of the plugin you use, because we had an issue in version 4.0.0!

[mattwiebe]

Really sorry about this @remouk - we are digging into this but it's not failing for any reasons that are immediately obvious.

You could also try deactivating all other plugins. None you have seem to conflict at first glance but this is a standard debugging move.

We'll keep digging in.