Broken federation #1436
Description
Describe the bug
This is a bug that started to occur only lately. Federation used to work properly until at least a couple of months ago.
Now any content created recently on my instance doesn't get forwarded to the Fediverse (tested with Mastodon and Akkoma). Only old posts are visible.
Steps to reproduce (if necessary)
- Create an instance with active federation
- Subscribe to the account on your instance through Mastodon/Akkoma
- Create a new post on Writefreely
- Wait for the subscribed instance to call the
/inboxendpoint
Relevant --debug logs:
2025/08/03 19:59:18 Rec'd! "POST /api/collections/fabio/inbox HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: manganiello.blog\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nConnection: close\r\nContent-Length: 792\r\nContent-Type: application/activity+json\r\nDate: Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:59:18 GMT\r\nDigest: SHA-256=Rsr7lZdw7F7XRym7Tn482sxLBbFa+hMsmb5nViuZd0w=\r\nSignature: keyId=\"https://mastodon.social/users/mark4#main-key\",algorithm=\"rsa-sha256\",headers=\"host date digest content-type (request-target)\",signature=\".....\"\r\nTraceparent: .....\r\nUser-Agent: Mastodon/4.5.0-nightly.2025-07-31 (http.rb/5.3.1; +https://mastodon.social/)\r\nX-Forwarded-For: 188.245.82.124, 10.0.0.1\r\nX-Forwarded-Ssl: on\r\nX-Real-Ip: 10.0.0.1\r\n\r\n{\"@context\":[\"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams\",\"https://w3id.org/security/v1\"],\"id\":\"https://mastodon.social/users/mark4#delete\",\"type\":\"Delete\",\"actor\":\"https://mastodon.social/users/mark4\",\"to\":[\"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public\"],\"object\":\"https://mastodon.social/users/mark4\",\"signature\":{\"type\":\"RsaSignature2017\",\"creator\":\"https://mastodon.social/users/mark4#main-key\",\"created\":\"2025-08-03T17:57:47Z\",\"signatureValue\":\".....\"}}"
2025/08/03 19:59:18 "POST /api/collections/fabio/inbox" 200 401.02307ms "Mastodon/4.5.0-nightly.2025-07-31 (http.rb/5.3.1; +https://mastodon.social/)"
ERROR: 2025/08/03 19:59:18 activitypub.go:611: No `to` value!
Note that the error complains about no to value being present, but the request actually contains a to value.
Expected behavior
The new content gets relayed when the subscribed calls /inbox.
Application configuration
- Single mode or Multi-user mode? Single
- Database? mysql
- Open registration? no
- Federation enabled? yes
Version or last commit: 72fa575