What is the current spec for remote follow?

Yes! That was it! A simple content-type change and it’s working. Thank you thank you thank you!

Ah yes, the content-type header, I’ve been through this too.

Sorry to add to an old thread, but hopefully this will be helpful to others implementing this in the future.

There is no documentation for oStatus remote follows, but this article is the best I’ve found: How to implement remote following for your ActivityPub project

In addition, I’ve proposed FEP-3b86 which standardizes this behavior and expands it to include other kinds of activities (such as Like and Announce). I think it’s a big improvement over oStatus, and I’m happy to help anyone who’s interested to implement it.

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