Unable to follow Mastodon bots

[raphgilles]

Hello,

This is not the first time that I tried to follow a bot from Mastodon, but the search found nothing.

Can you think it could be possible to enable the possibility to follow bots in the future ?

Thank you !

[trwnh]

this is probably because they are presented as Application or Service instead of as Person

potentially relevant areas of code:

pixelfed/app/Http/Controllers/SearchController.php

Lines 42 to 44 in d07b80d

	if(isset($remote['type']) && in_array($remote['type'], ['Note', 'Person']) == true) {
	$type = $remote['type'];
	if($type == 'Person') {

pixelfed/app/Util/ActivityPub/DiscoverActor.php

Lines 38 to 48 in 8368633

	public function discover()
	{
	$this->fetch();
	$res = $this->getResponse();
	if (empty($res) || !in_array('type', $res) || $res['type'] !== 'Person') {
	throw new \Exception('Invalid Actor Object');
	}
	return $res;
	}

pixelfed/app/Util/ActivityPub/Inbox.php

Line 300 in 26c47a0

$typeCheck = in_array($type, ['Person', 'Tombstone']);

pixelfed/app/Util/ActivityPub/Inbox.php

Lines 308 to 309 in 26c47a0

	switch ($type) {
	case 'Person':

[dansup]

Fixed!