Persistent follow request notification on account with "Automatically accept new followers" turned off

[juanejot]

Describe the bug

Recently (within the week?) on Tuba 0.9.2 (both on KDE & GNOME), I have been repeatedly informed of a follow request. When I click on it, there is no such follow request listed. When I log in on the web, there is likewise no follow request.
Tokodon does not show this follow request. Neither do the Mastodon client or Trunks on iOS.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Open Tuba
2. After a brief spin of retrieving my account info, "1 Follow Request" is shown in the upper left.
3. Upon clicking on the indicated button, a ghost (cute) tells me there are no follow requests.
4. Checking on follow requests online shows none.
5. This happens every time I open Tuba on either mentioned system, and revoking tokens and logging back in has no effect.

Logs and/or Screenshots

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Instance Backend

Mastodon

Operating System

cachyOS with kernel 6.14.0-1-cachyos through 6.14.0-4-cachyos running GNOME 47 through 48, Arch with kernel 6.13.8.arch1-1 on KDE 6.3.2 through 6.3.3

Package

OS repositories

Troubleshooting information

os: CachyOS Linux (null)
prefix: /usr
flatpak: false
version: 0.9.2 (production)
gtk: 4.18.2 (4.16.12)
libadwaita: 1.7.0 (1.6.4)
libsoup: 3.6.5 (3.6.4)
libgtksourceview: 5.16.0 (5.14.2)
libspelling: true
Clapper: 0.8.0 (0.8.0)
GStreamer: GStreamer 1.26.0 (1.12.24.0)

Additional Context

No response

[GeopJr]

Thanks for the report!

Tuba does not keep track of follow requests itself, when you open Tuba and it fetches your account, the server tells Tuba that there is one pending follow request.

Your issue sounds awfully similar to #1154. You can try the instructions I've listed in my comment there to verify yourself but it feels like a server issue.

Now, I wonder how we could work around it from our side 🤔 Maybe we can also check if there are any from the API instead of taking whatever the server tells us during account fetching at face value.

[GeopJr]

Actually, would you also mind telling me if you are on mastodon.social by any chance? I have a suspicion that this issue might be mastosoc exclusive due to the amount of stress their servers are under.

[juanejot]

The symptom in #1154 does look similar, though I'm not aware of any follow requests I've declined. I am not on mastodon.social. If it's server-side, I'd be happy to check in with my admin on it, though again, I haven't seen this on the web or on any other client.