Follow requests nobody answers are sent again

A Follow was resent only when the persona followed again. Lemmy 1.0
sends nothing it queued for a server before it started sending there, so
the Accept of a community follow made on first contact was lost for good:
the village's persona stayed "requested" a day while Lemmy listed her as a
follower, and every post the community announced was refused as not
followed. A request still unanswered is now sent again, the same activity,
after 15 minutes, an hour, 6 hours, a day, two and four days
(FollowResender, every 15 minutes); a server that holds the follow answers
the copy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw

PrivaPub.Tests/Federation/InboxGapTests.cs

@@ -42,6 +42,41 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Federation
 
 		PrivaPub.Models.Statistics.InteractionEvent Processed(string activity) => _harness.Ledger.Of("in").Last(e => e.Activity == activity);
 
+		// a follow request nobody answers is sent again after 15 minutes, an hour, 6 hours... (Lemmy 1.0 lost the Accept of a
+		// follow it took before it started sending to us, and the community's posts were refused as not followed)
+		[Fact]
+		public async Task A_follow_request_nobody_answers_is_sent_again_with_a_growing_pause_until_it_is()
+		{
+			var token = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+			var (root, alice) = await _harness.Persona("alice");
+			var quiet = new RemoteActor(_harness.Peer, "quiet");
+			await _harness.Follows.Follow(root, new FollowForm { AvatarId = alice.Id, Target = quiet.Id }, token);
+			var following = await DB.Default.Find<Following>().Match(f => f.AvatarId == alice.Id && f.TargetActorURI == quiet.Id).ExecuteSingleAsync(token);
+			async Task<int> Follows() => (await _harness.Outgoing(quiet.Id + "/inbox")).Count(a => a["type"]!.GetValue<string>() == "Follow");
+			var made = following.CreatedAt;
+			Assert.Equal(1, await Follows());
+
+			// (the store is shared with other tests' requests: what this one got is counted on its own inbox)
+			async Task<int> After(TimeSpan wait)
+			{
+				var before = await Follows();
+				await _harness.Follows.ResendPending(made + wait, token);
+				return await Follows() - before;
+			}
+			Assert.Equal(0, await After(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10)));
+			Assert.Equal(1, await After(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(16)));
+			Assert.Equal(0, await After(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(30)));
+			Assert.Equal(1, await After(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(77)));
+			Assert.Equal(3, await Follows());
+			Assert.All(await _harness.Outgoing(quiet.Id + "/inbox"), a => Assert.Equal(following.FollowActivityURI, a["id"]!.GetValue<string>()));
+
+			// a request older than the count is sent again too; an answered one never
+			await DB.Default.Update<Following>().MatchID(following.ID).Modify(b => b.Unset(f => f.Resent)).Modify(b => b.Unset(f => f.ResentAt)).ExecuteAsync(token);
+			Assert.Equal(1, await After(TimeSpan.FromDays(1)));
+			await DB.Default.Update<Following>().MatchID(following.ID).Modify(f => f.State, FollowState.Accepted).ExecuteAsync(token);
+			Assert.Equal(0, await After(TimeSpan.FromDays(30)));
+		}
+
 		// Pixelfed names our post by its page (/@name/<id>, the post's url) in its Like, Announce and their Undo: the post is
 		// found the same as by its id
 		[Fact]