hi @Marek π¦πΊπ©πͺ @Friendly Koala @Friendica Support
after much prevarication, due to the unsolved issue of the instance not fetching most of my followed hashtags [latest post: https://friendica.au/display/f3535bde-5769-d73a-ae22-15e898311506], i decided this arvo to press ahead anyway & import my Masto contacts here, via the corresponding Masto following_accounts.csv file. it did not work; nothing happened, despite a brief popup msg telling me the import had finished.
wondering if the #friendica contacts tool possibly didn't like the other account info after each account name [various combos of true, false], i edited the text file to remove them all, & retried. it still didn't work.
i feel a bit silly, in that there must be some obvious error i'm making, but atm i can't see it.
this is a sample from the edited file i've tried to import:
1earthmedia@universeodon.com
wansti@friendica.au
thisweekinkde@social.opendesktop.org
newd_bot@chinwag.org
lowqualityfacts@mstdn.socialis there something wrong with that format pls?
there are 289 entries in the file, fwiw.
@Friendly Koala @Marek π¦πΊπ©πͺ @AJ Sadauskas @FollowBackBot today i have mucked about some more with this, & now have formed a tentative conclusion that this service is not compatible with friendica.the essential first step is to
FollowBackBotFollow me and I will follow you back. Your public posts will then be boosted through tags.pub. Unfollow me, and the boosts will stop
but afaict the #friendica GUI simply provides no facility to DO that initial Follow of this service. i tested in #FirefoxNightly, #Floorp, & Vivaldi.in Masto, per pic below, searching for that tag does generate the standard Masto
Follow Hashtagbutton.
otoh by contrast, in friendica a completely different page ensues, per next pic, which has NO button or any other way obvious to me, to actually DO the Follow.
alas, it seems i still have no good way so far to expand the reach of hashtag-fetching across fedi, in a small friendica instance.
Marek π¦πΊπ©πͺ
•Michael πΊπ¦
•Droppie
•Matthias
•Content warning: importing mastodon contacts into friendica?
@Droppie @Marek π¦πΊπ©πͺ @Friendica AU Admin
@Michael πΊπ¦
https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/15358
Droppie
•Content warning: importing mastodon contacts into friendica?
@Matthias ah, well then that explains it, unfortunately. thx.
@Friendly Koala @Marek π¦πΊπ©πͺ @Michael πΊπ¦
Matthias
•@Droppie @Michael πΊπ¦ @Marek π¦πΊπ©πͺ @Friendly Koala
There is an alternative available to you. You can use the import button for the CSV file to enter the Mastodon address (without the @ symbol). This will import the contacts from the external account.
Droppie
•@Matthias
oh, now i think we had misunderstood each other. the way that i have been trying to do the import, was indeed using that button, per this pic:
except the button's name is
Save settings[which tbh seems a bit misleading].so it seems that the Import tool is comprehensively broken atm, if neither way works π
@Friendly Koala @Marek π¦πΊπ©πͺ @Michael πΊπ¦
Matthias
•I didn't make myself clear. If you enter your Mastodon handle in the βYour legacy ActivityPub/GNU Social accountβ field, your contacts will be imported directly from that account. This means you can skip the CSV import.
Droppie
•@Matthias thanks, but unfortunately then this happens:
it never asked me for my password, which i expected should be necessary for privacy
@Friendly Koala @Marek π¦πΊπ©πͺ @Michael πΊπ¦
Matthias
•Have you added your Friendica account as a new address on Mastodon and set up the redirect?
Droppie
•@Matthias
ah, i really have done a bad job at explaining this -- sorry for wasting your time. i have MANY simultaneously active fediverse accounts / instances... four friendicas [four different instances], two Mastodons, one Sharkey. i am not trying to close one instance now & migrate it to another.
instead, i need to import my most up to date contacts list, which atm happens to be one of my Mastos, into my newest friendica [this one that i am making these posts in] that i created ~5 weeks ago & have been evaluating & testing to see if it is good enough to become my new daily default fedi "home" .
so, yesterday i exported the contacts list from that Masto, & this is the file i have been trying then to import into this new friendica account, as per all the corro in this thread.
does that make sense now?
if the file import tool is broken, then i would have to manually search for every one of the >
... show more@Matthias
ah, i really have done a bad job at explaining this -- sorry for wasting your time. i have MANY simultaneously active fediverse accounts / instances... four friendicas [four different instances], two Mastodons, one Sharkey. i am not trying to close one instance now & migrate it to another.
instead, i need to import my most up to date contacts list, which atm happens to be one of my Mastos, into my newest friendica [this one that i am making these posts in] that i created ~5 weeks ago & have been evaluating & testing to see if it is good enough to become my new daily default fedi "home" .
so, yesterday i exported the contacts list from that Masto, & this is the file i have been trying then to import into this new friendica account, as per all the corro in this thread.
does that make sense now?
if the file import tool is broken, then i would have to manually search for every one of the >200 contacts individually in this instance, which would take hours or days.
@Friendly Koala @Marek π¦πΊπ©πͺ @Michael πΊπ¦