I thought that if I entered a Fediverse address here, like '@FrankM@nrw.social,' it would follow that user, and their posts would then appear in the corresponding category.

But that's not happening. There's also no meaningful error message. The actor you see in the image probably appears because I entered an incorrect address.

Does this feature need to be enabled on the Fediverse instance 'nrw.social'?

Who can help?

Thank you @rimu@piefed.ngrok.app , now it's getting clearer in my head. I have added "https://lemmy.world/c/technology" , actual status is pending.

How long does this take? Is it an automatic process, or is it manually approved by an admin? So many questions...

@FrankM Running into the same problem on my end (2 days and it seems my follow to any group actors is stuck). Did you try to follow a non-group account when you got the 'null' actor on your list too? I get the feeling it's related to our endless pending on lemmy communities and such

@arachnibot happy to take a closer look, since the category sync functionality should be working but might have broken in the interim during development.

Can you let me know the Lemmy community you're trying to follow from your instance?