!Friendica Support
My Friendica instance won't connect to certain mastodon servers, such as hachyderm.io, social.lol, or universeodon.com

For example, if I go to contacts and attempt to add @[email protected] as a new contact, I get a message saying "The network type couldn't be detected. Contact can't be added."
Going into the admin webfinger diagnostic and entering [email protected] returns the correct webfinger information. However, when I plug it (or the AP self url) into the admin Probe Diagnostic, I'm missing most of the key information:

Array
(
    [name] => [email protected]
    [given_name] => 
    [family_name] => 
    [nick] => [email protected]
    [guid] => 
    [url] => [email protected]
    [addr] => 
    [alias] => 
    [photo] => https://death.id.au/images/person-300.jpg
    [photo_medium] => 
    [photo_small] => 
    [header] => 
    [account-type] => 
    [community] => 
    [keywords] => 
    [location] => 
    [about] => 
    [xmpp] => 
    [matrix] => 
    [hide] => 
    [batch] => 
    [notify] => 
    [poll] => 
    [request] => 
    [confirm] => 
    [subscribe] => https://universeodon.com/authorize_interaction?uri={uri}
    [poco] => 
    [openwebauth] => 
    [following] => 
    [followers] => 
    [inbox] => 
    [outbox] => 
    [sharedinbox] => 
    [priority] => 0
    [network] => unkn
    [pubkey] => 
    [manually-approve] => 
    [baseurl] => https://universeodon.com
    [gsid] => 4
    [networks] => Array
        (
        )

)

So, why is this only for some servers? Why does this same thing not happen on other Friendica instances I've looked at? What is blocking Friendica's probing, and is there a way around it?

• Version: Friendica 'Blutwurz' 2026.01 - 1586
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