Notices by C.W. Smith (cwsmith@social.mechanizedarmadillo.com), page 4

Interesting thing is that everything seems to be functioning as intended with #ActivityPub and the #PersonalReader module which provides a Mastodon like setup for reading things. but I still can't follow or be followed.
I am stumped on this subject. I THINK that maybe there is an issue with NGINX config maybe, or something else. Just don't know.

I could use some advice from anyone who has used or can help me troubleshoot the #ActivityPub module in #Drupal. I just can't get the thing to work. I ever redid the system to try and ensure I got proper permissions on the keys.

Any thoughts folks?

#SiteBuilding
#WebsiteBuilding
#Troubleshooting
#Modules

So, I still haven't figured out the #ActivityPub #Drupal issue. It SEEMS to be functioning as it should in my side some, but any attempt to actually get it to do ActivityPub related functions seems to fail.

The Readme file isn't too clear on what I should do, but it was indicating I should be able to search a user name at least so. I don't know currently.

For anyone interested, the #Drupal #ActivityPub module can be found here.

https://git.drupalcode.org/project/activitypub

Hmmmm.

Checked for log permissions on the #Drupal build. Got an error for ActivityPub logs indicating:

Error creating the signature: Unable to read key

Which tells me the #ActivityPub module isn't seeing the key in the private file folder. So it might be a permissions issue.

#SiteBuilding
#WebsiteBuilding
#Fediverse

@BeAware

Hasn't seen the update notification yet so will probably do that after while. Still fighting Drupal to get it to be ActivityPub friendly.

Got the private file issue handled, but I can't find the username on the site now that #ActivityPub is enabled.

Nothing I can find so far about this error from #Drupal or #Nginx and frankly it be nice if I could find info.

The user name it says to look for is CWSmith@hybridized-concepts.com without the leading @. Thoughts?

@BeAware

@LavenderPawprints

It's like how my Dad is RL... He's always been an absolutist. You either side with him, or your inferior in someway intellectually, morally, or ethically. He's always been that way. Of course it's less a real moral stance and more a blame anyone but himself for how the last 20 years went for him

@LavenderPawprints

@BeAware

You aren't wrong. The extreme political stance left ward was something I was warned about when I discovered the Fediverse. I was hoping I could keep that sort of stuff out of my feed or at least minimize it. Besides, the idea of sharing to many communities appealed. I didn't want the closed walled garden setup.

I turn a lot of blind eyes towards the politics. I have to.

@BeAware

Working on it. It takes a bit.

@ProfessorCode

@killyourfm

Ain't that the truth.

I will probably be doing that more as I work on one of my blog urls instead of deal with whatever else I'd need to for that.

Even if I am not an expert, having stuff written from the POV of an enthusiastic but not professional voice could be of actual benifit.

@killyourfm

It always feels like an uphill battle, even with my Dad who hates Microsoft and has been in tech related jobs for most of his life.

He gets pissed at how Linux works because it's not how he thinks everything should work.

@mte90

@BeAware

r/Mastodon might not have an answer. As far as I am aware, all the automated crossposting utils stopped functioning when X took its API private so there might not be an easy solution.

I honestly just copy and paste depending on what I am sharing and if I feel it's worth putting on both platforms.

@BeAware

Since the addresses for media aren't ip addresses it should be OK.

@BeAware

Not sure about backblaze, but Cloudflare works at the DNS level so it shouldn't need any editing to .env.production at all.

@hyakinthos

@BeAware @madeindex

I am on #Cloudflare at the moment.

What I need is a good alternative to it's services or a good reason why I don't need them at all. I use Linode/Akamai for my VPS service.

I do agree about the issue with the big boys, but that's gonna be an issue with users understanding of what everything is. It's still difficult to get people to understand that it's not a difference like it is between Meta or X.

@BeAware

No problem, I honestly think it's Redis at the point now anyway.

@BeAware

Anti-anything folks usually suck hard.

@BeAware

Well I checked that error and it is a redis error. So see if this command runs properly.

redis-server --daemonize yes

As it relates to the postgres status, the entire service is postgresql so that's probably where you hit the snag.

@BeAware

Maybe, but it's worth checking. They may have been started on setup, but it's worth running a status on to see what's going on.