Tip: use the W3C Link Checker and fix any errors before federating with Bridgy Fed.

https://validator.w3.org/checklink

If you are using Bridgy Fed to federate your posts from your personal site, I highly recommend you first run the W3C Link Checker on a post, and verify there are no “red” errors (or fix any you find), before pinging Bridgy Fed to federate the post.

The reason is that if your post contains broken links, especially broken https: links as part of an @-mention, a weird set of timeout interactions will occur between #BridgyFed and #Mastodon that will cause any Mastodon instances following your posts to drop your federated posts as if they had not been received.

Further, those instances will also ignore any UPDATES to that post.

More discussion here:
* https://chat.indieweb.org/dev/2024-09-04#t1725421768496000
More bug details here:
* https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/884#issuecomment-2327861883

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