I’m trying to follow myself in Lemmy from my Akkoma instance. I can search for @[email protected] from my Akkoma instance, and find myself just fine. Clicking follow sends a follow request, but it just pending forever and I see no notifications or anything on my Lemmy instance. Do I need to do something from Lemmy to allow following from other instances? Should this even work?
@pimeys
You cannot follow Lemmy users, only communities. AFAIU, Lemmy just does not do anything with that request.
To share my experience : my Friendica account is set up to automatically boost anything @Liwott produces, and it does so as soon as this instance is aware of the Lemmy posting, but that does not always happen automatically. Sometimes I have to search my Lemmy post on Friendica, and only then it is boosted. Note that I do follow my Lemmy account from here
Oh, that’s good to know. And still a useful feature if I can follow a community.