When I try to subscribe with a remote account (I am on peertube.social) I get this error:

Cannot fetch information of this remote account

Is there a fix to that, or some other way to subscribe?

  • the_tech_beast@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    I think it is because you are subscribing to the account. On Peertube, an account can have multiple channels. So try to subscribe only to a channel and not to the account who owns the channel.

    Go to the account page and then subscribe to the channel.

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      3 years ago

      It should actually work to subscribe to the whole user, even from a remote instance, but yeah, I have found that sometimes only one of them will load properly.

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      3 years ago

      Thanks, but that’s not it, both “subscribe to a channel” and “subscribe to all channels” result in an error message

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    3 years ago

    I have the same error on tilvids.com, trying to subscribe to some remote accounts (not all, and seemingly independent of the remote instance).

    Sometimes, I was able to work around it by subscribing to a specific channel instead of the whole user or vice versa.