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Phillip Upton

Mastodon.sdg.org has been having issues the last two days and I sincerely believe the ‘pub’ part of ‘activitypub’ was a serious mistake.

If I ran my own instance, how would I retrieve everything that was missed while the server was offline and did not get the pub notifications?

Am I completely misunderstanding the protocol?

@philsplace All instances of mastodon would auto-retry sending all posts to you - not indefinitely - but for months.

Other servers that are trying to send posts to you will keep them queued if your server is unreachable, and they'll get sent when your server is back online.

ps: you don't "retrieve" ie: pull... mastodon is push-based.

@jgobble
So... "Just wait longer" and "there's no way of knowing"?

@philsplace

@jgobble

Thanks, I got the push part… which is why I was wondering what happened if you weren’t available to receive it.

Didn’t know about the retry (maybe missed it in the spec?)