I just tested it out. You’re not wrong. I posted something and it federated just fine. It’s the scheduled posts that aren’t going through.
Ok, thanks, will create a new thread for that, then.
I’m confused, does a “free” account “@user@micro.blog” that pulls posts from external RSS feed (but doesn’t have a blog) suppose to federate micro.blog feed to mastodon? Because my feed is empty on any mastodon instance I try to follow myself from.
Mastodon servers never see the posts until someone is following. Then it’ll get and make a copy from that point forward. Follow that account, make new posts, they’ll start showing up.
From our conversation on Micro.blog and it seems relevant here. I’m seeing some users who are marked as federating their Micro.blog posts but when I look up their profile on Mastodon, it show zero posts. Is that because no one is following them on Mastodon? Would my following them trigger their posts to appear?
No one on your instance has followed that user. If that’s the case, you won’t see any posts until someone on your instance does follow them.
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@jsonbecker I’m still confused, If I follow “that user” on “my instance”, but then even after the new content is posted by the user - the feed is still empty on my mastodon instance, is this to suggest that more than one user on the instance should follow “that user”?
Also could someone please answer explicitly about the free account federation - so it will be clear if free accounts without the blog federate or not!
What software runs your instance? Mastodon? Or something else? I still, here, experience issues following micro.blog users from some other systems (Firefish, in example).
@manton By the way it’s interesting to check random micro.blog accounts in https://browser.pub/ which some right now use to test/debug activitypub compatibility. For my micro.blog account this looks like that:
For my Friendica account, this looks like that (please note the numbers and the posts below):
Still experiencing this in some random other federated platforms too, so there still seem some glitches in micro.blog AP implementation…?
If we knew the answer, we would have. We’re not a support team, just other users of the product. I happen to be a paying one, so I don’t know the answer to your question.
You should see content from a user that is posted after you follow them. If you’re not, there’s something that is not working. But you won’t see historical posts until someone on a server follows them-- AP/Mastodon works on an inbox paradigm, and there is no “get historical messages”-- there’s just “Now I’m subscribed to new messages” – at least as I understand it.
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I guess, we’ll need to hear from @manton ! 
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