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as told by ginger @gingerrroot

i’m not receiving notifications from certain people? i don’t have them muted or anything to my knowledge

anyone know why this would occur?

@gingerrroot if the instance they are on is silenced this might happen

@GinnyMcQueen i’ve only noticed it with laurelai’s so far

@GinnyMcQueen mastodon.starrevolution.org (for ease of access/not looking it up)

@gingerrroot Oh yeah we have ALWAYS had a problem with getting their stuff to show up for some reason. I've pinged @hugo a couple times about it, but we have never figured it out.

@GinnyMcQueen @hugo okie dok!! as long as it is known i will not worry about it.

@gingerrroot @GinnyMcQueen Yep, I don't see any unusual errors in the logs related to that instance.
It could be just delayed or something may be wrong on their end, can't really pin point the issue.

@Laurelai @gingerrroot I just handle the hosting and from my end I can’t find a reason why your instances are not communicating. Don’t believe your instance is suspended or @GinnyMcQueen would have mentioned it.
As @eloisa mentioned on Masto.pt we receive notifications from you and Masto.pt and Kitty.town use the same server cloud + settings. Do you get kitty.town posts in your federated timeline?

@hugo @gingerrroot @GinnyMcQueen @eloisa Yes i do. And when i reply to ginny, then open her post in its own tab my replies never show up, someone told me this is the behavior if an instance has you silenced or suspended

@Laurelai @gingerrroot @eloisa well it could be a technical issue but maybe @GinnyMcQueen could confirm there are no suspension in place before we dig any deeper.

@Laurelai @eloisa @GinnyMcQueen I was not sure but I just confirmed that if your instance was suspended, you wouldn't see the public toots in your federated timeline.
Does @gingerrroot follows you?

@Laurelai @eloisa @GinnyMcQueen @gingerrroot so, I would suggest that she tried following you and test to see if the notifications work after following

@hugo @Laurelai @eloisa @gingerrroot Yup we dont have them blocked or suspended and I have tried the "resubscribe" thing in the admin panel

@hugo @Laurelai @eloisa @GinnyMcQueen okay i have followed, so let’s see if replies / notifications show up now

@Laurelai @hugo @eloisa @GinnyMcQueen hello!!

so it showed up now but that’s very odd that it won’t unless i am following?

@Laurelai @gingerrroot @hugo @GinnyMcQueen

ok, people, last idea on my hat: do any of you have locked accounts? Could this be the root of the issue, since after a follow it started working as it should..?

@Laurelai @gingerrroot @hugo @eloisa @GinnyMcQueen that would be the behavior of a silence of a server if in place, iirc.

@gingerrroot @hugo @Laurelai @eloisa It acts like it is silenced when it isn't, it's weird for sure

@wraidd it is not o our block list, but thank you!