Alex Deko [Hz]

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Alex Deko [Hz]

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 23:31:18 +0300

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Does Hubzilla support outgoing social relays?

Alex Deko [Hz]

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:28:16 +0300

!Hubzilla Support Forum - I am messing with my new Hubzilla installation and I can't figure out how to set up social relay for outgoing posts. Is it even supported?

I have Diaspora Statistics and Diaspora Protocol apps enabled and they seem to work - I can connect to Diaspora, add people and I receive posts for tags I subscribed to from people I have no connection to. So social relay works inbound.

However if I make a public post with tags, it doesn't seem to get out via relay - I don't see it anywhere. Is there some additional configuration needed?

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Harald Eilertsen

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:23:31 +0300

See addons/diaspora/diaspora.php about line 292-297. Seems like you're on to something.

Max Kostikov

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:03:45 +0300

As Mario said in previous post relay to Diaspora already sould be defined on addon initialization.

# util/config | grep 'iliketoast.net'
config[diaspora][relay_handle] = relay@relay.iliketoast.net

If you don't see this try to reenable addon.

Mario Vavti

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:25:06 +0300

@Harald Eilertsen i think what you refer to is probably an old leftover.

In diaspora_notifier_process() the relay is added to the receivers list. The relay xchan is imported in diaspora_init_relay().

Harald Eilertsen

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:50:53 +0300

@Mario Vavti Great! Just did a quick rg, and that was what showed up.

Alex Deko [Hz]

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 08:04:30 +0300

@Max Kostikov it is there.

Relay does work, just only in one direction :) I get tagged posts from Diaspora but if I make one it doesn't seem to be sent - it doesn't appear on Diaspora servers with no connections to my node.

Mike Macgirvin

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 08:41:04 +0300

What I'm seeing here is that iliketoast is marked as dead in the site table and is being ignored in delivery. It must have been offline for an extended period in the recent or distant past. I believe there is code to automatically bring back sites and clear the site_dead flag if they suddenly start communicating again, but this may not be implemented in the Diaspora driver or it may not be implemented specifically for the relay. That will take more investigation.

That's what I can tell you. I would rather get a root canal by a dentist that's tripping on acid than work on Diaspora federation so don't wait for me to fix it. If you're in a hurry you can find iliketoast in the site table and set site_dead to 0. If you want to fix it the right way you should check that whenever we get a message from a site this happens automatically.

Alex Deko [Hz]

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 11:39:21 +0300

@Mike Macgirvin, thanks for clarification!

I checked the table though and it isn't marked as dead.


           site_url           | site_dead | site_valid
------------------------------+-----------+------------
 https://relay.iliketoast.net |         0 |          0

I suppose it isn't a big thing though as tags should distribute fine through existing connections. I was curious if it didn't work because it required additional configuration someplace (e.g. Diaspora pods have separate settings for receiving and sending content).

Mario Vavti

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:24:19 +0300

@Alex Deko [Hz] i have done a quick test and it appears to work. This message has been send to the relay only and it appears here: #^https://diasp.org/tags/fedtest1

If it does not work for you at the hubzilla side, you should probably see something in the logs...