Pixelfed 0.14.4 (FrankenPHP with Horizon and the scheduler, on the shared
Postgres and Redis) and WordPress 6 with ActivityPub 9.3.1 (on a new shared
MySQL, WP-Cron run by a sidecar) are peers now, each with its scenario:
Pixelfed 26 checks (photos both ways with alt text, its place arriving as
Rome with its coordinates, comments, likes, a boost, edits and deletes),
WordPress 17 (an Article with its title, our reply, like and boost kept as
comments of their kinds, its edit and removal). Pixelfed has a town driver
and a pair spec: 145 checks pass, 2 expected (G-0007).
What they showed: Pixelfed names our posts by their page (fixed in
26dac40); on PostgreSQL its migration making caption nullable never runs,
so every remote boost failed (the pasture applies it); it files a DM it
fetches as followers-only (G-0007, upstream); Passport refuses a token
whose user id equals its client's id. WordPress signs with RFC 9421
first, which PrivaPub now verifies (c5a69d2).
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PeerTube 8.3.1 runs on the shared Postgres and Redis, transcoding off. Its
scenario passes 24 checks: a persona follows a channel; a new video comes as
the channel's Announce and reaches the persona's home as a boost, playable
through the media proxy with byte ranges; comments both ways thread; a like
and its undo count; renaming and deletion arrive; the unfollow; statistics.
The town's seeder also takes reruns on the same accounts in its stride: a
Lemmy community already made is found, a circle member already approved
asks nothing again.
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Pleroma 2.10.2 runs in the pasture from its OTP release (libvips, the
dedupe question, and hackney pointed at the system CA bundle); its driver is
Akkoma's on its own container and database. The pair passes 241 cells, after
its first run showed Pleroma dropping Follows it could not verify yet.
The PrivaPub driver finds the group an earlier run made instead of failing
on the name; the seeder posts a quote or reply of a post from its own round
after that post.
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Iceshrimp.NET 2026.1.2-beta runs in the pasture with AuthorizedFetch on;
its driver registers through the native API and takes Mastodon tokens from
its OAuth form. The pair passes 225 cells. A new Iceshrimp note reaches its
author's followers only, never an account it mentions or answers, until it
is edited (G-0004, peer): delivery cells now say when a server holds a post
only because it was addressed.
The checker credits a seeder's fetch to the object fetched, not to the reply
that needed it; the seeder skips the wait for an accept whose follow was
already accepted; the PrivaPub driver signs its roots in again when a run
reuses saved sessions.
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tools/pasture/town/ (run through tools/pasture/town.sh) seeds a fake
community across every running peer and checks that all of them, and
PrivaPub, agree on what happened:
- drivers per platform on four dialect bases (Mastodon API, Misskey API,
Lemmy API, PrivaPub with /clientapi), each with a selftest against
its own server; what a server holds is read from its database, never
by making it fetch;
- a deterministic generator (specs/village.json: 23 accounts on seven
servers, roots with several personas, circles and communities, a
cross-server follow graph, posts of every kind and visibility, reply
rounds, likes, boosts, reactions, votes, edits, deletes, blocks,
mutes and a report) and a seeder that keeps a ledger of what happened;
- a sweep that expects delivery and confinement per server, what each
account sees, counts, threads, edits, deletes, follows and privacy
rows (sibling keys, published days, canary root credentials in every
peer's database, located posts that never leave), with what the peers
do on purpose modelled (Misskey drops orphan replies, Lemmy keeps only
community content, edits go to the post's own audience);
- known gaps (gaps.json) turn failures into xfail and passes into xpass;
a self-contained report.html, and docs/INTEROP-BACKLOG.md.
The pasture moves to a public-looking subnet (peers with no private
address switch can join), takes PASTURE_PORT when 6971 is in use, adds
peers to a running pasture (run.sh add, Caddy recreated with its CA
kept), removes its volumes on down, writes every scenario check to
out/scenarios.jsonl, serves decePub as decepub.test for its e2e tests,
lifts GoToSocial's and Lemmy's own rate limits, trusts Caddy in
Mastodon (TRUSTED_PROXY_IP) and gains Hollo (Fedify), whose one login
owning several accounts is the nearest peer to PrivaPub's personas.
The first village found the four PrivaPub bugs fixed in the commits
before this one; the second run, on the fixed server, passes 2319 checks
with 11 failures left, all between peers or from Lemmy's send worker,
which the seeder now warms up first. ROADMAP records the owner's
decisions of 2026-10-04 (the town, and P9 back from the cut list).
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Sharkey 2025.4.7 is the Misskey peer under another name, image, database, Redis db and
home. Its scenario is Misskey's plus edits both ways and the FEP-e232 quote tag: 40 checks
pass.
Akkoma 3.20.1 publishes no image, so tools/pasture/images/akkoma installs its OTP
release, pinned by checksum, and appends Caddy's CA to the CA bundles the release ships.
Its scenario has 44 checks, which pass three runs in a row:
- follows, posts, CW, followers-only posts and the published time;
- replies, likes, boosts and their undos;
- EmojiReact both ways and withdrawn;
- DMs, polls, quotes, media, edits with history and deletes, both ways;
- unfollow, block, unblock and statistics.
The two bugs, both fixed:
- Followers-only posts arrived as DMs on Pleroma and Akkoma. They call a post private
only if an address in `to` contains "/followers" or its cc is not empty. Ours is
/groupies, and a post mentioning nobody had an empty cc. The followers collection is now
named in cc as well, which tells nobody anything new.
- Akkoma's open polls showed as ended and refused votes. Akkoma carries an open poll's
end in `closed` and sends no `endTime`. A `closed` in the future is now read as the end.
Neither of these is a PrivaPub bug:
- Akkoma's Linkify never takes @user@host.test for a mention, so its DM addresses alice
with to[].
- Its API never reports a remote blocker as blocked_by, so the block is read from its
database.
Also in this commit:
- The rate limits are configuration (RateLimits: AccountsPerMinute, InboxBurst,
InboxPerTenSeconds), with the old values as defaults. The pasture raises the accounts
limit, which back-to-back runs from one address had hit.
- A new Lemmy never sends what it queued for a server before it started that server's
send worker, so the scenario waits for the worker before its first follow.
All six peers in one clean pass: GoToSocial 54 (+1 expected), Mastodon 49 (+2), Misskey
35, Sharkey 40, Akkoma 44, and Lemmy 20 (+3) once the worker wait was added. 642 tests
pass.
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peers/lemmy.sh runs the Lemmy 1.0.0-beta.2 backend on the shared Postgres. It trusts
Caddy's CA through SSL_CERT_FILE and reaches the pasture through
DANGER_FEDERATION_ALLOW_LOCAL_IP. Lemmy 0.19 cannot join: its rustls trusts only its
bundled roots. LEMMY_LOG sets RUST_LOG.
scenarios/lemmy.sh drives Lemmy through its v4 API. 20 checks pass, three runs in a row:
- communities both ways;
- a titled thread each way, and alice's mention of a Lemmy community becoming a thread
there;
- the Lemmy community's announce reaching alice's home;
- comments both ways and alice's like as an upvote;
- private messages both ways;
- statistics.
Two expected failures: votes, which Lemmy sends only through the community as
Announce{Like|Dislike}, and a moderator's removal. Both belong to P7.
What it showed, in docs/INTEROP.md:
- Lemmy 1.0 keeps its user's thread in a remote community pending until the community
announces it back. It clears the flag before answering that echo 400 ("Object is not
remote"). Leaving the author's server out of the Announce, as tried here, left every
such thread pending, so GroupDistributor now says why the echo stays.
- Every bare Announce{object} is answered 400, as Lemmy answers its own compatibility
Announce(Page).
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peers/misskey.sh runs Misskey on the shared Postgres and Redis. Its config is generated with
the pasture's private networks allowed and a setup password, it trusts Caddy's CA through
NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS, and the first account it makes is the scenario's user. A new Misskey
federates with nobody, so the setup also turns federation on.
scenarios/misskey.sh adds 35 checks, all passing, as listed in docs/INTEROP.md. They cover
posts, CW, MFM source, replies, unicode reactions both ways and their withdrawal, likes as
reactions, legacy quotes both ways, polls, specified notes, media, deletes, unfollow,
block and statistics. MISSKEY_NAME and MISSKEY_IMAGE are there so Sharkey can reuse the peer.
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peers/mastodon.sh runs Mastodon's web and sidekiq containers on a shared Postgres and Redis
(peers/shared.sh). They trust Caddy's CA through SSL_CERT_FILE and reach private addresses
through ALLOWED_PRIVATE_ADDRESSES. Its users and tokens come from tootctl and rails runner.
scenarios/mastodon.sh adds 49 checks, as listed in docs/INTEROP.md: follows, posts,
replies, likes and boosts with undos, DMs, polls, FEP-044f quotes both ways, media through
the proxy, edits, deletes, locked follows, a circle request, reports, blocks and statistics.
Two are expected failures:
- inbound Block (P7);
- circle posts. Mastodon 4.7 loses the recipient of deliveries to its numeric
/ap/users/<id>/inbox and then drops a post that names no local account. The fix on our
side changes what a circle reveals, so it waits for the owner.
GoToSocial and Mastodon together: 86 passed, 0 failed.
The pasture now copies Caddy's root certificate reliably, readable by the peers, and
rebuilds the bundle each time. The CA directory is mounted shared (:z), because a private
:Z label locks out every container but the last. pfetch reaches PrivaPub's own https URIs
through Caddy. PRIVAPUB_ENV passes settings to PrivaPub, which scenarios/crawler.sh uses to
check the opt-in crawler against Mastodon: it visits, describes and reads the peers list.
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tools/pasture/run.sh up [peer...] | down | logs | ps and interop.sh [peer...] are now built
from parts:
- lib/pasture.sh: network, Caddy with its CA in a volume and copied to .ca/root.crt, Mongo,
PrivaPub;
- peers/<name>.sh: each peer's <name>_up;
- lib/interop.sh: ok, ko, and xf for checks expected to fail until a later phase;
privapub_token <persona>, which gives each peer its own persona under one root; and
stats_check;
- scenarios/<name>.sh: each peer's checks.
GoToSocial is pinned at 0.22.1, the version the 33 checks were proven on. Its scenario
gains four statistics checks:
- the admin statistics describe gts.test as gotosocial;
- they count inbound and outbound traffic;
- they name no account.
37/37 passed three runs in a row.
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