@benjojo huh I wonder why you were having webfinger issues; it works for me:

curl 'https://akko.erincandescent.net/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:erincandescent@erincandescent.net' -H "Accept: application/jrd+json"
{"aliases":["https://akko.erincandescent.net/users/erincandescent","https://queer.af/users/erincandescent"],"links":[{"href":"https://akko.erincandescent.net/users/erincandescent","rel":"http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page","type":"text/html"},{"href":"https://akko.erincandescent.net/users/erincandescent","rel":"self","type":"application/activity+json"},{"href":"https://akko.erincandescent.net/users/erincandescent","rel":"self","type":"application/ld+json; profile=\"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams\""},{"rel":"http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe","template":"https://akko.erincandescent.net/ostatus_subscribe?acct={uri}"}],"subject":"acct:erincandescent@erincandescent.net"}%