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@obenland Ah, so that’s how to do that. [does]

9683. yikes.

@obenland However, as I’m root on these systems, I do have access to wp_config and I have pumped the outbox processor size to 600 as per above.

@obenland I assure you that is not what is going on. In addition to running my normal offboard cron, I am currently running a secondary offboard cron which is hitting wp-cron.php every two seconds.

(I upped that to every 0.5 seconds during Sunday while trying to clear out the queue.)

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@pfefferle | Success: Deleted a total of 732 cron events.

we immediately regain 737 custom events, however.

Trying activitypub_reprocess_outbox deletion…

Success: Deleted a total of 1 cron event.

Re-deleting activitypub_async_batch gets…

Success: Deleted a total of 731 cron events.

I undo follow request, redo it…. and no change. We are also back up to 374 custom events already.

@pfefferle I have done this several times and they reappear, but I can do it again. Would you prefer via wp-cli or via the plugin? I realise it shouldn’t matter but I am asking anyway.

@pfefferle yes, that’s how I’m looking at the queue.

@obenland They are almost entirely activitypub_async_batch events.

@pfefferle I don’t know how to look at the outbox itself, that seems very reasonable to me but I don’t know how to check it.

Currently the cron queue has 750 events in it but they’re all dated right now or later. I don’t know whether this is normal or not, but when I’ve used wp-cli to force quick processing of them, they empty out, and then new ones queue up.

(This is down from well over 8000, many of which took 30-70 seconds to run.)

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@obenland No, wp-cron is running, cron wp cron jobs are being queued and run. Running them manually from wp-cli works apparently normally also.

(Yes, all of this started when I did a bulk disabling of pingback on old posts – all 8100 of them. Unfortuntely, I discovered that this meant all posts got marked as edited, which generated ActivityPub post-edit notifications for every single post. I used wp-cli to push all the cron tasks through at higher speed, it took a solid day. But we got through them, eventually.)

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@obenland Nothing federates outward. Replies to existing posts do seem to get picked up, but nothing new goes out. Follow requests don’t work, including existing follows. I went to a second account on my Mastodon instance which also follows @solarbird@solarbird.net and that account, shows its previous follow – a follow which has been in place since the blog went up – as “pending” suddenly. But the blog thinks both accounts are already followers.

I think this is why nothing is going out.

Another update: I can refresh the @solarbird@solarbird.net profile now from the Mastodon admin interface. But follows are definitely broken – if I try to follow from Mastodon I get the request-pending/cancel follow request state that cannot, naturally, be resolved. And no posts federate right now.

I dug into WP-CLI and used the stock commands to have it chug through the massive backload of cron tasks at an accelerated rate, and it did. But it’s in a bad state now, and we’re not federating… anything, as far as I can tell. It is running new cron tasks, but new posts aren’t going out.

New posts aren’t going out. Old posts that got out can be replied to from Mastodon, and they reach the blog, but attempts to refresh the profile fail with a Errorphant, so we look like we’re in a rather bad state of some kind.

Don’t really know where to start on this. I mean… is it valid to deactivate and then reactivate the ActivityPub plugin? I didn’t even know that was a safe operation tho’ your comments earlier on this thread imply that it is. xD

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No, I don’t want that!

I just want the action of disabling pingbacks on a post – the act of turning pingbacks off – to not trigger a post edit notification.

Right now if you turn off pingbacks/trackbacks on a post, the post gets flagged as edited and everyone who has interacted with it across the federation gets an edit notification.

That’s what’s clogged up my outbox.

I am suggesting that this is unnecessary, because if you do it in bulk, literally every post you have gets flagged as edited and sends out an edit notification to every single person who ever interacted with any post.

Thank you! I’ll install the plugin and see what I can do with it.

But I don’t know how to clean the database – is there UI for that or is this going into the database directly and purging entries with SQL? Because that’s terrifying. xD

Finally, I’m confused – I don’t see how disabling pingback/trackback on posts and not sending an ActivityPub notification interact. I mean, disabling pingbacks/trackbacks is what I did. I just didn’t want edit notices for every post so affected to go out as a result.

Thanks for replying so quickly! I will install the plugin and try to figure it out. ^_^

OH wow that was fast ??

I took a screenshot of the APPARENT SUCCESS ?? and since I can’t attach it here I’ll post it on mastodon. Here’s the link.

Thanks!

I’ve been talking to Snarfed at Bridgy Fed here:

https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1493

and they’re saying:

Well that’s odd. The Friends plugin isn’t even trying to do AP conneg, it’s fetching https://bsky.brid.gy/bsky.brid.gy with Accept: */*, which is wrong: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#retrieving-objects

And suggesting I open an issue with you. Should I re-file this at your Github or should I say here? I don’t want to file redundant issues, obviously, but if there is better I’ll do it there.