@julian@activitypub.space in case this helps narrow it down, I followed 2 more accounts, and now my "following" page shows 6 accounts (from 4 before), but the menu on the left still says 7, it wasn't affected.

@julian@activitypub.space right, after more testing, I'm pretty sure that the accounts that appear in the followers/following pages (with the profile pictures) are correct, the problem there is with the number on the left menu.

@panos@calckey.world yeah that number is just a counter, it's likely just out of sync with the... real number of followers <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://activitypub.space/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f604.png?v=68d304aca6d" title="" />

So... less of a priority.

@julian@activitypub.space yeah, this was the least important one, but I think that the problems with following/posts not being fetched/follows not going through are pretty important, these are essential parts of federation.

@panos@calckey.world if Sharkey users can't follow NodeBB users you'll have to take it up with the Sharkey devs. NodeBB sends back an Accept to a follow, as it does to Mastodon servers.

@julian@activitypub.space thanks, I informed them!
This still leaves serious issues that are on NodeBB's end though. This is my "World" page rn - posts from accounts and communities I follow aren't fetched (I'll report back on the communities after the refollow), and I'm getting random posts in my feed instead:

@julian@activitypub.space btw someone in the Sharkey devs' channel noticed something interesting: Through https://activitypub.academy/ (which is a testing mastodon instance with an activity log), when I follow a Firefish user, it shows Firefish sending back an Accept. Same with Mastodon. But when I followed a NodeBB user, while the follow went through, it doesn't show an Accept being received from NodeBB. Tested this myself as well.

@julian@activitypub.space I can also report back about remote communities after I unfollowed and refollowed them, there was a new post in the Lemmy community I follow 5 hours ago but again it wasn't fetched by NodeBB. Still shows the last post to be from 10 days ago.

@julian @panos @general @liaizon I am also affected by this: https://activitypub.software/TransFem-org/Sharkey/-/issues/1212

They changed something in one of recent releases and now can't process Accept activities.

@silverpill @julian @general @panos @liaizon Sharkey can follow NodeBB users, I tried to follow julian using a friend's instance and it immediately returned a follow request accepted.

Sharkey version: 2025.4.5

@caohuak@moon.lonewolf.zone @liaizon@social.wake.st @silverpill@mitra.social @julian@activitypub.space @general@activitypub.space huh, here it still doesn't want to:

@panos @liaizon @silverpill @julian @general Perhaps you need to contact the calckey.world administrator to find out what's going on? I've tested this from another instance and it works fine.

@caohuak@moon.lonewolf.zone will do, thanks! @general@activitypub.space @liaizon@social.wake.st @silverpill@mitra.social @julian@activitypub.space