I reset my fediverse name to use drose@micro.blog (switched account name from danielmrose to drose) to try and get more compatibility across the fediverse landscape.
I have now disappeared from the fediverse.
I can cross post just fine.
But, if I reply from micro blog to a mastodon user it doesn’t show up and if you search for my handle it doesn’t exist, even when seeking to follow from the micro.blog/drose page in the follow form it returns a “user does not exist” error.
@Havn — I checked @micro@havn.blog from Mastodon and I’m seeing it. Maybe there was a caching delay or something? Is it showing up for you now?
@danielmrose — After you changed your Micro.blog username, did you go into Account → View Fediverse Details and “Reset” your username there? Unfortunately that is required when a username or domain name changes. There is no seamless way to migrate between usernames, so the fediverse side has to be reset separately, which removes all your existing followers.
And interestingly, I just got a private mention from a mutual on Mastodon who has the same problem! (And I can’t find him either, even though he has a standard micro.blog username. And I can find some micro.blog users.)
I’m trying to figure out what’s going on here. I see @micro@havn.blog from indieweb.social but not from mastodon.social, so something is definitely wrong. Do you mind if I reset your fediverse username again (to the same thing) while testing this?
Same problem here, though I have not changed my username (I just signed up to Micro.blog yesterday so everything on my blog is completely vanilla). Can not find my micro.blog-user through Mastodon.
I’m still not properly federated, so that makes Micro.blog much less useful, as most of the people I follow aren’t on the service, so I can’t reply to them!
I’m still testing this. I think something may have changed on the Mastodon side with verifying URLs, because I can’t see anything wrong in Micro.blog and nothing related to this has changed recently. As soon as I can confirm what changed, I will work around it. It’s my top priority to solve today.
Fixed! It was indeed Mastodon being a little more picky than it used to be about the responses from Micro.blog. I can follow these accounts now in my testing.
I have a feeling that it’s a caching issue on each Mastodon server that will resolve after some kind of delay. I can find @micro@havn.blog from indieweb.social, but not yet from mastodon.social. I also tried to reset your profile again, but that didn’t change anything.
Let’s give it a few hours and if it’s still not working, let me know.
Hi there! I am also having the same problem. I am on mastodon.social right now. And if I search for @alex@alexanderbellgram.com (my Fediverse username in Micro.blog account settings), it doesn’t show up. I think this might be related to my separate help post where my reply to a Mastondon account within Micro.blog does not appear on Mastodon.social (probably because my fediverse user account doesn’t show up either).
