@herself there are more than one side to stuff that can't be repaired. Sometimes it's the money side, but sometimes it's the same thing that a lot of car manufacturers do, and that is to make it harder to repair in order to improve reliability
@herself I would start over by first removing all code for webmentions. Then let your custom domain resolve for Blot. Then start adding back the code for webmentions but only use your custom domain when it (of if) it asks for a web address. I used @Amit's excellent tutorial.
@hjertnes I can get that, I guess, and I do appreciate in many instances why reliability would take precedence. But I still think we lose out ultimately. We’re losing the opportunity to tinker with things, get it wrong, maybe break something, but also figure stuff out in the process.
@herself in the json payload of the webmentions that are being received the target is defined as "https://discombobulated.blot.im/2021/03/10/tech-dilemmas-sourdough-writing-stickiness-and-on-having-published" in the example you shared.
I think the issue may be how you are advertising the base URL of each post -- I've combed your source code, and don't see an h-card...I'm rusty w/things IndieWeb, but I think you may need to adjust that to your bespoke URL, instead of the blot.im, one.
The h-card in the header of your site is commented out,
<!-- <a class="h-card" rel="me" href="https://discombobulated.co.nz/">Jess Nickelsen</a> -->
@herself looks like micro.blog still barfs when it comes to escaping code snippets. Whoops. That's an oldy
@herself I had a look at your source and the setup. I believe the feed that you have added to micro.blog is from the domain 'https://discombobulated.blot.im' -- so micro.blog is sending the webmentiones to those urls (just look at the your entry post for the thread where webmentions work). If so, you should replace it with the same feed from your https://discombobulated.co.nz domain.
If this is not the issue, let me know :)
@herself yeah it's not perfect. But I do like how much more reliable things are today than 15 years ago
@amit Thanks for this! I think that was what was causing the problem. Probably nothing can be done about existing comments on the blot.im feed, but going forward hopefully things will be chattier! :)
@amit Well, it looks as though the feed has updated correctly (my last test blog post showed up in my micro.blog feed from the correct domain), however I've noticed that replies to this aren't showing up in the webmentions dash even though I've confirmed all the settings. I will have to puzzle it over some more. But thanks for your help in any case!