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<p dir="auto">NodeBB caught an error when <a href="https://activitypub.space/user/ozoned%40btfree.social" rel="nofollow ugc">@ozoned@btfree.social</a> followed another user from <code>mastodon.social</code> (who it is is irrelevant, who did the following is also irrelevant but I thought ozoned would find this amusing)</p>
<p dir="auto">Was it intentional that my instance was notified when ozoned followed someone unrelated to my instance?</p>
<p dir="auto">I'm adding in logic to handle this case now &lt;img class="not-responsive emoji" src="<a href="https://activitypub.space/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f604.png?v=039c373c252" rel="nofollow ugc">https://activitypub.space/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f604.png?v=039c373c252</a>" title="<img src="https://fedi.wiki/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f604.png?v=2b14be9126a" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--smile" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":smile:" alt="😄" />" /&gt;</p>
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