Droppie
2026-04-09T07:18:39Z
friendica

hi @Marek 🇦🇺🇩🇪 @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.social

is there something wrong with that format pls?
there are 289 entries in the file, fwiw.

♲ @msdropbear@friendica.au:
@Friendly Koala @Marek 🇦🇺🇩🇪 @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

FollowBackBot
Follow 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 Hashtag button.

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.