I’ve created an account on mastodon.online. From there if I try to search for any user on librem.one, like “@dos@librem.one”, I got the error “503 Remote data could not be fetched”.
I can see toots from librem.one. I searched for #librem5 on mastodon.online and could see a last hour toot from Guido @agx@librem.one. But again, searching for @agx@librem.one returns the 503 error.
Is this 503 a temporary error or “normal” behavior from the Librem Social instance when receiving interaction from other instances?
EDIT: what I really want to do, is to move an account from librem.one to mastodon.online. I got a “could not be found” error when I attempted to create an account alias for the account on librem.one. I assume this is connected to the 503 error.
I can’t answer your question but any HTTP 5xx error is badness (representing a server side failure). 503 means “service unavailable” and it is supposed to be temporary.
I’ve just checked again. Same 503 error while searching for a librem.one user from inside mastodon.online, using desktop Firefox.
So it’s more like a permanent error or one of those “features” that crippled Librem Social, making it pretty useless and defective.
And since I cannot find a user at librem.one, I cannot create an account alias for it, which is part of the procedure to move an account to another instance.