Feed not updating with any content besides on-instance follows

[gqqjhffr]

Describe the bug No federated content is appearing in my feed (most of my follows being on Mastodon).

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to Bookwyrm homepage or "feed" page while logged in and following off-instance accounts.
2. Scroll down to feed.
3. Be disappointed at the lack of a flood of federated goodness.

Expected behavior I expect to see content from the 100+ accounts I've followed across the Fediverse.

Instance bookwyrm.social

Additional context Federated posts stopped appearing in my feed after Jan 3.

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10
• Browser Firefox
• Version 109.0

[hughrun]

Can you explain more? When you say "most of my follows are on Mastodon" do you mean you are following Mastodon accounts? If so there are likely 2 explanations for what you're experiencing:

1. bookwyrm.social's Celery task manager fell over for a little while and there is a large backlog of tasks chugging through (e.g. I just saw an update that happened 2 weeks ago - it's getting there but will take a while to catch up)
2. The only content from non-Bookwyrm fediverse applications you will see on Bookwyrm is interactions with your posts – e.g. likes, boost, replies, and DMs. Bookwyrm is not a general-purpose social media application - the feed includes the aforementioned interactions, plus ActivityPub activities that are only currently used by Bookwyrm: Readthrough activity, Reviews etc. It doesn't include Notes (e.g. Mastodon toots), Articles etc. There's nothing stopping Bookwyrm's activity types being used from other software, but they need to support those types.

[solarbirdy]

Is this also why my attempt to follow my wife's new bookwyrm.social account from my mastodon account keeps turning into a "Pending approval"?

Also, she turned that off so it shouldn't require approval but is it just really lagged and that's why?

[hughrun]

That might be to do with "secure mode" on the Mastodon server, we may need to some more testing to be sure.

[arjanboltjes]

@hughrun I see you mentioned the following: "The only content from non-Bookwyrm fediverse applications you will see on Bookwyrm is interactions with your posts – e.g. likes, boost, replies, and DMs." I indeed see in my notifications if someone on e.g. Mastodon likes one of my Bookwyrm comments, but when I go to the actual comment on my instance (I'm on bookrastinating) I don't see any mention of any interaction with that comment. Is that how it is supposed to be?

[hughrun]

@arjanboltjes interesting question. I just double checked and there is no indication for likes or boosts on the post itself - though you should see those events in your home feed as well as notifications. I think that may be a deliberate decision (to not display the numbers on the post) but if you feel strongly that they should be there, log an issue and it can be discussed.

You should definitely see replies on the actual post (as long as you're logged in/it's a public reply or post) - so if you're not seeing those there is probably a bug somewhere.