Because #BotsInSpace is shutting down () I'm looking for a new home for my bots.

Terence Eden

@ted you'll need to speak to them about that.
But, personally, I don't think it is suitable for anyone other than tinkerers.

Arjen Haayman

@Edent @vincent @bot I'm using feed2toot to read RSS and post to mastodon. But that wouldn't work with this bot since posting to it isn't like to a regular mastodon instance, is it?

Terence Eden

@haayman @vincent that's correct. My code doesn't replicate the Mastodon experience.

Cogito Ergo Disputo

@Edent well, apparently I hadn't used my Gitlab account for too long, it got wiped out, and I can't be bothered to create a new one. My suggestion is to add the saving of replies with the following configuration options:
- roll over recording based on either number of messages or max memory
- discard any messages over a max number of messages or memory
- no limits

Terence Eden

@Disputatore did you read the FAQ?
https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/#why-doesnt-this-store-replies

Cogito Ergo Disputo

@Edent is it mandatory to expose replies?

Terence Eden

@Disputatore no. But the data is still on your server whether you like it or not.

If you're happy with that risk, feel free to fork it.

Terence Eden

Update!

You can now move followers from your old bot accounts to your new self-hosted ones.

So now @[email protected] points at @[email protected] - and all the followers have moved!

Source code at https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/

Owen Blacker

@Edent I'm intrigued why you went for @solar rather than …@bots.edent.tel

Is it because each bot is running its own instance of that "single account PHP file" thing you shared the other day?

Terence Eden

@owenblacker Yup! A single domain per "instance".
Subdomains are free

Terence Eden

OK! My self-hosted ActivityPub Bot works with a few hundred followers.

I'm going to try and move @colours which has over 1,000 followers (WHY?!?!) and see if it copes with that.

All the code's at https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/

Terence Eden

Hmmm. About 1,000 followers have moved over to the new account - @colours

I can see my messages being sent. But they don't seem to be received. Not entirely sure what's going on and am half a bottle of Malbec into the evening, so probably shouldn't be futzing around with code.

One for the morning, I fear!

Jochie 👨🏻‍💻

@Edent I’m delighted to see you added the move support. Do you think doing the reverse is also feasible, so if the experiment fails it doesn’t become the Hotel California?

Terence Eden

@jochie I suspect so
Please raise an issue on the repo so I don't forget.

Terence Eden

OK. What is going on here?

A bunch of people can see the posts sent out by @colours - but lots of people can't.

As far as I can see, Mastodon.social isn't sending me back an HTTP response when I send to a shared inbox. But other Mastodon-based servers happily accept it.

Here are the headers
https://gist.github.com/edent/1f41d1b2a50ab497e5d5f8d9e851caf1

Any help #ActivityPub friends?

:wordpress: Jack

@Edent If it helps, I can’t see posts from it and I’m on mstdn.social which I think is the same admins?

Terence Eden

@jackmcconnell I'm wondering if my cURL Multi Handle has gone wrong somewhere?

Terence Eden

Hmmm. My cURL Multi Handle is only showing 32 successful requests.

That *feels* like a suspicious number!

Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)

@Edent "*feels* like a suspicious number" - ah, kabbalah debugging FTW

Terence Eden

@brucelawson frankly, it's the only thing I've got!