OK Fedifriends, I need your help with some complex ActivityPub stuff.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@dt I'm on mastodon .social and I can see a list of your followers.

[derickr@phpc.social]

@Edent @colours Doesn't this describe what you need to do? → https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#follower-synchronization-mechanism (I haven't tried this yet, just bookmarked it for further research/tries).

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

edent@mastodon.social are you seeing dt@mastodon.top's followers who are all on Mastodon.social?

I also am of the opinion that Mastodon does not read from this collection

[edent@mastodon.social]

@julian @dt

I am.

But I'm not seeing any of the MS followers on @colours

[edent@mastodon.social]

@derickr aha! That might be what I'm missing. Ta!

[derickr@phpc.social]

@Edent I just released, by looking at my other bookmarked post on this topic (which you wrote on socialhub!), that you already knew about it.

→ https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/list-of-followers-isnt-available-to-mastodon/4717/7

I hadn't made the link earlier. Sorry.

[dt@mastodon.top]

@Edent @julian i just followed @colours .. before i followed it said 0 followers. now it says 1.2k followers. but then there's a message saying the user prefers not to make follower info public.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@derickr to be fair, I'd forgotten that

[renchap@oisaur.com]

@Edent Mastodon only displays the followers local to the instance you are looking at
@dt

[edent@mastodon.social]

@renchap yes, but I can't see any of the mastodon.social followers of @colours

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

renchap@oisaur.com edent@mastodon.social as it should, as the followers collection can be gamed and should not be trusted.